“I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.”
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I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.
If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.