John Ruskin Quotes about Science

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See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

John Ruskin

Children, Teaching, Science

Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening to us the houses of heaven than in teaching navigation; surgery better in investigating organiation than in setting limbs; only it is ordained that, for our encouragement, every step we make in science adds something to its practical applicabilities.

John Ruskin

Encouragement, Teaching, Science

John Ruskin (1907). “The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study”

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.

John Ruskin

Science, Deals

John Ruskin (1867). “The stones of Venice.-3 vol”, p.39

Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.

John Ruskin

Science, People, Quiet

John Ruskin (1871). “Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain. Index”, p.37

The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.

John Ruskin

God, Nature, Science

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.24, University of Virginia Press

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

John Ruskin

Science, Facts, Appearance

Stones of Venice Vol. III, Ch. II

I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is coloured by "chlorophyll," which at first sounds very instructive; but if they would only say plainly that a leaf is coloured green by a thing which is called "green leaf," we should see more precisely how far we had got.

John Ruskin

Science, Greek, Wish

John Ruskin (1800). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture: Also, Lectures on Architecture and Painting; The Study of Architecture; Sesame and Lilies; Unto this Last; The Queen of the Air; The Storm-cloud of the Nineteenth Century”

Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.

John Ruskin

Art, Science, Use

John Ruskin (1897*). “Stones of Venice”