Quotes by George Sarton

George Sarton

A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates everywhere in time and space.

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All men are our brothers. As far as the discovery of the truth is concerned, they are all working for the same purpose; they may be separated by the accidents of space and time, and by the exigencies of race, religion, nationality, and other groupings; from the point of view of eternity they are working together.

Brother

Men

Race

Ancient portraits are symbolic images without any immediate relation to the individuals represented; they are not portraits as we understand them. It is remarkable that philologists who are capable of carrying accuracy to the extremes in the case of words are as credulous as babies when it comes to “images,” and yet an image is so full of information that ten thousands words would not add up to it.

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Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

Erudition

Pedantry

From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a “better” one.

Achievement

Essence

Views

Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is sooner or later a cause of servitude.

Culture

Greek

Simplicity

Hellenic science is a victory of rationalism, which appears greater, not smaller, when one is made to realize that it had been won in spite of the irrational beliefs of the Greek people; all in all, it was a triumph of reason in the face of unreason. Some knowledge of Greek superstitions is needed not only for a proper appreciation of that triumph but also for the justification of occasional failures, such as the many Platonic aberrations.

Appreciation

Greek

People

I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.

Killing

Men

Reader

If we are generous enough, we can stretch our souls everywhere and everywhen else. If we succeed in doing so, we shall discover that our present embraces the past and the future and that the whole world is our province.

Past

Soul

World

In ancient times there was no public education, except that of the forum, the theater, and the street, and the general degree of illiteracy was very high. The early men of science were left very much to themselves and such a phrase as “the scientific culture of Alexandria in the third century B.C.” does not cover any reality. In a sense, this is still true today; the real pioneers are so far ahead of the crowd (even a very literate crowd) that they remain almost alone.

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Men

Real

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Quotes by George Sarton

George Sarton

A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates everywhere in time and space.

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a “better” one.

Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is sooner or later a cause of servitude.

I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.

If we are generous enough, we can stretch our souls everywhere and everywhen else. If we succeed in doing so, we shall discover that our present embraces the past and the future and that the whole world is our province.

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