Top 42 Whewell William Quotes
#1. And so no force however great can stretch a cord however fine into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.
William Whewell
#2. Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error.
William Whewell
#3. The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a succession of revolutions, is, in reality, a series of developements.
William Whewell
#5. A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude.
William Whewell
#6. Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.
William Whewell
#7. Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions.
William Whewell
#8. We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]
William Whewell
#9. There is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature.
William Whewell
#10. Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.
William Whewell
#11. The question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall use a bad and incongruous, or a consistent and regular notation.
William Whewell
#12. And more so now, since having a family - I don't seek out any other acceptance.
Kelly Clarkson
#13. Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.
William Whewell
#14. Why hadn't he chosen a different Amish barn to bed down in last nacht? He hated Bethany seeing him like this. Remembering him like this. A homeless wanderer. A stray.
Laura V. Hilton
#15. It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.
William Whewell
#16. Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.
William Whewell
#17. The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is the only end. Hence the practical arts are not to be classed among the sciences
William Whewell
#18. The present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science; and it must needs concern us to know the steps by which these possessions were acquired, and the documents by which they are secured to us and our heirs for ever.
William Whewell
#20. To discover the laws of operative power in material productions, whether formed by man or brought into being by Nature herself, is the work of a science, and is indeed what we more especially term Science.
William Whewell
#21. As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.
Jean De La Bruyere
#22. You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of admissions. I abandoned many stories because of that. But I don't get too down about it. It's something I accepted from the time I decided to work in films.
Hayao Miyazaki
#24. The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them.
William Whewell
#25. THE MAJORITY of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all
Richard Dawkins
#26. Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends.
William Whewell
#27. People are not going to reelect Barack Obama. But will the new president govern as a real conservative? We're going to have to apply the heat to make sure.
Steve Forbes
#28. Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with.
Sebastian Bach
#29. I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#30. Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.
William Whewell
#31. Real faith has perfect peace and joy and a shout at any time. It always sees the victory.
Smith Wigglesworth
#32. We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.
William Whewell
#33. The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made mechanics analytical; I mean Euler.
William Whewell
#34. The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case.
William Whewell
#35. I've thought it would be cool to have a baby young. You know, be my road dog - like my dogs, they travel the world - but there's always something you have to give up for success. Everything comes at a cost. Just what are you willing to pay for it?
Serena Williams
#36. In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.
William Whewell
#37. Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong.
William Whewell
#38. The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed.
William Whewell
#39. Gold and iron at the present day, as in ancient times, are the rulers of the world; and the great events in the world of mineral art are not the discovery of new substances, but of new and rich localities of old ones.
William Whewell
#40. It's hard to give a career like this up, when I tell my wife I'm going to the office, and it's the beach.
Karch Kiraly
#41. We are no longer a nation of one church; we are a nation of many churches.
Charles Kennedy
#42. Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.
William Whewell
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