6 quotes
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
On the advisableness of improving natural knowledge (1866)
The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Science … commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
The Darwin Memorial (1885)
Physiology, Psychology, Ethics, Political Science, must submit to the same ordeal.
Evolution and Ethics (1893)
The antagonism between science and religion, about which we hear so much, appears to me to be purely factitious — fabricated, on the one hand, by short-sighted religious people who confound a certain branch of science, theology, with religion; and, on the other, by equally short-sighted scientific people who forget that science takes for its province only that which is susceptible of clear intellectual comprehension; and that, outside the boundaries of that province, they must be content with imagination, with hope, and with ignorance.
The interpreters of Genesis and the interpreters of Nature (1885)