Arthur David Ritchie famous quotes

That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It is genuine nevertheless. Physical science stands as one of the great achievements of the human spirit.
-- Arthur David Ritchie

#Achievement #Needs #Spirit

The material universe must consist ... of bodies ... such that each of them exercises its own separate, independent, and invariable effect, a change of the total state being compounded of a number of separate changes each of which is solely due to a separate portion of the preceding state.
-- Arthur David Ritchie

#Independent #Exercise #Numbers

The first thing the reasonable man must do is to be content with a very little knowledge and a very great deal of ignorance. The second thing he must do is to make the utmost possible use of the knowledge he has and not waste his energy crying for the moon. The third thing he must do is try and see clearly where his knowledge ends and his ignorance begins.
-- Arthur David Ritchie

#Ignorance #Knowledge #Moon

The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency to crowd our experience into those particular regions and to leave the others to themselves. We seek out those parts that are known and familiar and avoid those that are unknown and unfamiliar. This is simply what is called 'Applied Science.'
-- Arthur David Ritchie

#Law #Research #Crowds

It is really just as bad technique to make a measurement more accurately than is necessary as it is to make it not accurately enough.
-- Arthur David Ritchie

#Technique #Measurement #Enough

But it seems to me equally obvious that the orderliness is not all-pervasive. There are streaks of order to be found among the chaos, and the nature of scientific method is to seek these out and to stick to them when found and to reject or neglect the chaos. It is obvious that we have succeeded in finding some order in nature, but this fact in itself does not prove anything farther.
-- Arthur David Ritchie

#Order #Doe #Scientific Method

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

We must not rest until right livelihood is within reach of every human being upon this earth we love and cherish. We all have a role to play in achieving this goal.

If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go

I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.

One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!

Let us honor the Holy Ghost.

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

The unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual; and that the higher interests involved in the life of the whole must here set the limits and lay down the duties of the interests of the individual.

A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.