Polykarp Kusch Quotes

If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.
Polykarp Kusch

Knowledge, Science, End

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.
Polykarp Kusch

Life, Science, Able

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.
Polykarp Kusch

Beauty, Truth, Science

The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do.
Polykarp Kusch

Society, Destiny, Greater

We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.
Polykarp Kusch

Science, Live, Physics

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.
Polykarp Kusch

Experience, Knowledge, Sometimes

Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.
Polykarp Kusch

Knowledge, Alone, Science

No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based.
Polykarp Kusch

Work, Science, Single

Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.
Polykarp Kusch

Time, Science, Greatest

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.
Polykarp Kusch

Love, Nature, Men

The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.
Polykarp Kusch

Knowledge, Science, Control

To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children.
Polykarp Kusch

Life, Good, History

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Scientist

Born: January 26, 1911

Died: March 20, 1993

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