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Moses Harvey
(21 Mar 1820 - 3 Sep 1901)
Irish clergyman and naturalist.
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Science Quotes by Moses Harvey (3 quotes)
Civilization is simply a series of victories over nature.
— Moses Harvey
In Where are We and Whither Tending?: Three Lectures on the Reality and Worth of Human Progress (1886), Lecture 1, 20.
Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.
— Moses Harvey
In Where are We and Whither Tending?: Three Lectures on the Reality and Worth of Human Progress (1886), 26.
We hail science as man’s truest friend and noblest helper.
— Moses Harvey
From 'Science and Religion', The Maritime Monthly (Nov 1873), 2, 479.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) --
Carl Sagan
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