George Santayana Quotes About Science
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
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To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply, until they remembered what they had heard about astronomy, and the great size and distance and possible habitation of those orbs. ... [We] persuade ourselves that the power of the starry heavens lies in the suggestion of astronomical facts.
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Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.
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The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
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Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
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The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually brought into conformity with the facts by the painful process of selection,-for intuition runs equally into truth and into error, and can settle nothing if not controlled by experience,-we gain vastly in our command over our environment. This is the fundamental value of natural science
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