Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is …

Gilbert K. Chesterton
824 citations
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich. ✨ 1905 Heretics, ch.13.
Death
15

More Author Quotes

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative to that divine … ▶
I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.
Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.
The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich. ✨ 1905 Heretics, ch.13.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes