Herbert Spencer Science Quotations

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.

So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious-it is the refusal to study the surrounding creation that is irreligious.

Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to all other parts of the globe, yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so.

Science is organized knowledge.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.