Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.

The great tragedy of Science --- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact

Science is true, whether you believe it or not.

My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.

I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind us into a greater, more resilient whole.

Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins.

Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.

The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

One of the distinguishing features of anything that aspires to the name of science is the reproducibility of experimental results.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.