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To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite.

To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.

Victor Hugo
Religious, Future, Science

Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.

Victor Hugo
Science, Heaven, Magnificence

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

Victor Hugo
Time, Science, Past

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

Victor Hugo
Science, Lasts, Firsts

Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.

Victor Hugo
Believe, Science, Mad

Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?

Victor Hugo
Determination, Fall, Science
Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.606, Wordsworth Editions

In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.

Victor Hugo
Life, Stars, Science
"Les misérables".

Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.

Victor Hugo
Knowledge, Science, Penetration
Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.766, Modern Library

Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.

Victor Hugo
Art, Science, Ladders

Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?

Victor Hugo
Science, Understanding, Avalanches
Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.606, Wordsworth Editions

[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

Victor Hugo
Science, Equilibrium
Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.606, Wordsworth Editions

It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.

Victor Hugo
Science, Men, Names

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