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Charles Henry Parkhurst
(17 Apr 1842 - 8 Sep 1933)
American clergyman and reformer whose interest in municipal politics and corruption culminated in preaching sermons against police graft that protected vice in New York City. Public support was aroused by newspaper coverage, and there was a sweeping investigation of the corrupt Tammany Hall Democratic political organization.
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Science Quotes by Charles Henry Parkhurst (7 quotes)
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
'Sermons. III. Coming to the Truth'. In Anna L. Ward, A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose from American and Foreign Authors (1889), 585, No. 1190
Laws of Nature are God’s thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 232:7.
Purpose directs energy, and purpose makes energy.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
From Sermon, collected in The Pattern in the Mount and Other Sermons (1885), 6.
Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 382:32 .
Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
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Science is like society and trade, in resting at bottom upon a basis of faith. There are some things here, too, that we can not prove, otherwise there would be nothing we can prove. Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end. It is a mistake to contrast religion and science in this respect, and to think of religion as taking everything for granted, and science as doing only
clean work, and having all the loose ends gathered up and tucked in. We never reach the roots of things in science more than in religion.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
From 'Walking by Faith', The Pattern in the Mount: And Other Sermons (1885), 49. The sentence “Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end” is quoted alone in collections such as James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 382:35.
The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
'Sermons. XII. The Pharisee's Prayer'. In Anna L. Ward, A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose from American and Foreign Authors (1889), 585, No. 5937
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.
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