George Santayana Quotes about Science

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Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

George Santayana

Ignorance, Science, Facts

George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.78, Courier Corporation

The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually brought into conformity with the facts by the painful process of selection,-for intuition runs equally into truth and into error, and can settle nothing if not controlled by experience,-we gain vastly in our command over our environment. This is the fundamental value of natural science

George Santayana

Running, Science, Errors

George Santayana (2004). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.22, Cosimo, Inc.