Ira Remsen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The fundamental characteristic of the scientific method is honesty. In dealing with any question, science asks no favors. ... I believe that constant use of the scientific method must in the end leave its impress upon him who uses it. ... A life spent in accordance with scientific teachings would be of a high order. It would practically conform to the teachings of the highest types of religion. The motives would be different, but so far as conduct is concerned the results would be practically identical.
-- Ira Remsen

#Honesty #Teaching #Believe
We would be glad to have your friend come here to study, but tell him that we teach Chemistry here and not Agricultural Chemistry, nor any other special kind of chemistry. ... We teach Chemistry.
-- Ira Remsen

#Special #Would Be #Chemistry
Liebig taught the world two great lessons. The first was that in order to teach chemistry it was necessary that students should be taken into a laboratory. The second lesson was that he who is to apply scientific thought and method to industrial problems must have a thorough knowledge of the sciences. The world learned the first lesson more readily than it learned the second.
-- Ira Remsen

#Taken #Order #Two
Fahlberg is a scoundrel. It nauseates me to hear my name mentioned in the same breath with him.
-- Ira Remsen

#Names #Scoundrels
Be a physical chemist, an organic chemist, an analytical chemist, if you will; but above all be a Chemist.
-- Ira Remsen

#Chemist
Be a physical chemist, an analytical chemist, an organic chemist, if you will; but above all, be a chemist.
-- Ira Remsen

#Organic Chemistry #Chemist #Ifs

I'm not a handsome guy, but I can give my hand to someone who needs help. Beauty is in the heart, not in the face.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition
If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.
Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.
From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of the Vedic scriptures.
Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.
I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.

Ira Remsen famous quotes

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