Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.
My learning process is by eye alone; it's not at all scientific.
Life […] is scientific, that’s what it is.
A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
Now here comes in the whole collapse and huge blunder of our age. We have mixed up two different things, two opposite things. Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to suit the vision. Progress does mean (just now) that we are alw...
35. Not every environment accepts the progress you want to put across. Take a second look at what you dream about, be sure it can progress very well at where you are; Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not fertile grounds for a farmer’s dream seeds. Go and...
There is an undeniable truth that as one progresses further in his understanding of a craft the rest of his life progresses along with it. This symbiotic relationship between all things is experienced on a daily basis, but rarely articulated through ...
We don’t necessarily need to know each other’s name, age, profession, drug of choice, childhood trauma or recent tragedy to understand what pain feels like and offer comfort. We are strangers drawn together by a shared desire for lasting peace.
I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?
Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
I'm a work in progress.
I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.
When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover.
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.
I come from a pretty scientific family. My sister is a neurologist and my brother is an engineer.
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.
