CHAPTER III 



THE SCIENTIFIC MIND 



One use of physical science is that it gives definite ideas. 



Sir Humphry Davy. 

 The man of science has learned to believe in justification, 



not by faith, but by verification. Huxley. 

 The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening 



spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of 



mind. Prof. John Dewey. 

 Occasionally, and frequently, the exercise of the judgment 



ought to end in absolute reservation. We are not 



infallible, and so we ought to be cautious. Faraday. 

 To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object 



unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's 



works he may learn the greatest lessons. Sir John 



Herschel. 

 I do not know anything, except it be humility, so valuable 



in education as accuracy. Direct lies told to the world 



are as dust in the balance when weighed against the 



falsehoods of inaccuracy ; and accuracy can be taught. 



Sir Arthur Helps. 

 Scientific thought does not mean thought about scientific 



subjects with long names. There are no scientific 



subjects. The subject of science is the human universe ; 



that is to say, everything that is, or has been, or may be 



related to man. W. K. Clifford. 



THE main qualities which go to make up a scientific 

 mind are not peculiar attributes of the man of science ; 

 they may be recognised as belonging to men who have 



