Just as Christianity did not overcome science in its own territory, but defined its own essence better in this confrontation, so science, in a foreign territory, will not succeed in defeating the Christian religion or any other, but its will identify and clarify its forms of reference.
A scientific hypothesis is always beyond the limits of the facts that constitute the basis for its construction.
The victory of some scientific opinion and its inclusion in the worldview still does not automatically prove its veracity. Many times, it happens the other way around. Scientific truth develops along a complicated and circuitous route, and not just any kind of scientific worldview can serve to express it.
It is time to get rid of this narrow Christian division between spirit and flesh. The true spiritual life, the true ideational side of life, consists precisely in the use of the best parts of both body and spirit.
The struggle between the scientific worldview and the philosophical and religious conceptions alien to it, even if they are clearly opposed to the dominant scientific ideas, is difficult, persistent and erroneous, because of the probability of error. Because philosophy and religion are closely related to those powers, deeper than logic, of the human soul, whose influence strongly affects the perception of logical conclusions, their understanding.
Scientists are as imaginative as artists; they are not masters of their ideas; they can work well for a long time only on that thing to which their mind is inclined, on that thing which stirs their feelings. In their minds, ideas change one with another, appear among the most impossible, often crazy; they swarm, spin, merge, shine. And because of these ideas, they live and work in the name of these ideas.
I am fully aware of the fact that I can get excited about something false, deceptive, go down a path that will lead me into the jungle, but I can't not go down this path, I hate all the shackles of my thinking, I can't and I don't want to I force her to follow the important path from a practical point of view, but which will not allow me to understand even a little more deeply those problems that torment me... And this search, this desire is the foundation of all scientific activity.
The actor - here is the drama critic. Music critic is the singer or the violinist or the flautist.
America was discovered several times before Columbus, but no one was told about it.
The English have the magical gift of turning wine into water.
England and America are two nations separated by a common language.
Atheism needs religion no less than faith.
Most people go bankrupt because they put too much capital into the prose of life. Ruining yourself on poetry is at least honorable.
Most of our modern portraitists are destined for oblivion. They never portray what they see. They only portray what the audience sees, and the audience sees absolutely nothing.
Being in society is just boring. Being out of society is already a tragedy.
Being natural is a very difficult position - you won't last!
In America, the young are always ready to share with the mature all their baggage of inexperience.
In America, in the Rocky Mountains, I saw the only reasonable method of criticizing art. In the bar, above the piano, hung a sign: "Don't shoot the pianist - he's doing his best."
In England we have wonderful poetry, because the public does not read it, and therefore does not influence it in any way.
In England, unless a person speaks at least twice a week on morality before a vast and absolutely immoral assembly, the arena of politics is closed to him. As for the profession, she only has botany or the church.
There is nothing difficult in life. We are difficult. Life is too important to be taken seriously.
In art as in politics, old men are never right.
The truths of faith are believed not because people are rational, but because they are often repeated.
Books in popular series tend to exhibit popular opinions as well as cheap criticism in cheap editions.
There are too many women in London who trust their husbands. You know them from afar - they look so unhappy.
In our century the newspapers try to force the public to judge the sculptor not by his sculptures, but by the way he behaves with his wife; on the artist, according to the amount of income, and on the poet, according to the color of the tie.
In our century, too many people read a lot to be wise, and too many people think about how to be beautiful.
In our century, personalities rule, not ideas.
Nowadays, to be understood is to be confused.
In our time, nothing makes a more favorable impression on the public than a thoroughly worn common place. All suddenly feel a certain kinship between souls.