Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes About Science
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[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.
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Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.
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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.
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[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.
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