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Sir John Arthur Thomson
(8 Jul 1861 - 12 Feb 1933)
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Science Quotes by Sir John Arthur Thomson (11 quotes)
A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left.
— Sir John Arthur Thomson
All Nature bristles with the marks of interrogation—among the grass and the petals of flowers, amidst the feathers of birds and the hairs of mammals, on mountain and moorland, in sea and sky-everywhere. It is one of the joys of life to discover those marks of interrogation, these unsolved and half-solved problems and try to answer their questions.
— Sir John Arthur Thomson
Sooner or later nature does everything that is physically possible.
— Sir John Arthur Thomson
The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.
— Sir John Arthur Thomson
The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.
— Sir John Arthur Thomson
The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of honor than its conqueror.
— Sir John Arthur Thomson
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
— Sir John Arthur Thomson
There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.
— Sir John Arthur Thomson
Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?
— Sir John Arthur Thomson
When I was young Science walked hand-in-hand with Art; now she walks arm-in-arm with Trade.
— Sir John Arthur Thomson
When science makes minor mysteries disappear, greater mysteries stand confessed. For one object of delight whose emotional value science has inevitably lessened—as Newton damaged the rainbow for Keats—science gives back double. To the grand primary impressions of the worldpower, the immensities, the pervading order, and the universal flux, with which the man of feeling has been nurtured from of old, modern science has added thrilling impressions of manifoldness, intricacy, uniformity, inter-relatedness, and evolution. Science widens and clears the emotional window. There are great vistas to which science alone can lead, and they make for elevation of mind. The opposition between science and feeling is largely a misunderstanding. As one of our philosophers has remarked, science is in a true sense 'one of the humanities.'
— Sir John Arthur Thomson
See also:
- 8 Jul - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Thomson's birth.