Famous quotes containing the words science and/or underpinning:
“There is more religion in men’s science than there is science in their religion.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“We select granite for the underpinning of our houses and barns; we build fences of stone; but we do not ourselves rest on an underpinning of granitic truth, the lowest primitive rock. Our sills are rotten.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)