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Jacques Maritain
(1882 - 1973)
French philosopher.
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Science Quotes by Jacques Maritain (2 quotes)
A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
— Jacques Maritain
Reflections on America (1958), 97.
Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to the ends of human life, it would be nonsense to expect that the progress of science will provide men with a new type of metaphysics, ethics, or religion.
— Jacques Maritain
'Science and Ontology', Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (1949), 5, 200.
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) -- 
