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F. G. Peabody
(4 Dec 1847 - 28 Dec 1936)
American minister (Unitarian) and theology professor at Harvard University.
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Science Quotes by F. G. Peabody (3 quotes)
A greater gain to the world … than all the growth of scientific knowledge is the growth of the scientific spirit, with its courage and serenity, its disciplined conscience, its intellectual morality, its habitual response to any disclosure of the truth.
— F. G. Peabody
In The Religion of an Educated Man (1903), 54.
Science and faith have discovered a common territory which they possess, not as rivals, but as allies. … Thus the most alarming intellectual conflict of the last generation has already become of merely historical interest to the thought of to-day.
— F. G. Peabody
In The Religion of an Educated Man (1903), 5.
The scientific habit of mind is not alone the power to see straight and reason rightly; it is quite as much the power to wait, to sacrifice, to free one’s self from passion, prejudice, and fear.
— F. G. Peabody
In The Religion of an Educated Man (1903), 54.
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) -- 
