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...which results that flash of intellectual light which is the essence of man's brief terrestrial career. "The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. ... Of course I do not here speak...

...experiences whose result is known beforehand. But we have as yet looked at only one side of the question. The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it...

...experiences whose result is known beforehand. But we have as yet looked at only one side of the ques tion. The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he de lights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it...

...(April, 1909) and which are of interest at this point of our discussion. "The scientist," he says, "does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it. . . ." (pp. 236-237.) Or again: "The people whose ideal most conformed to their...

...another place he states the reasons why a scientist is impelled to his labors in the following terms : "The scientist does not study nature because it is useful ; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it...

...experiences whose result is known beforehand. But we have as yet looked at only one side of the question. The scientist does not study nature because it is useful ; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it...

...intellectualist temper upon which Dr Schiller pours such scorn. "The scientist," Prof. Poincare says, " does not study nature because it is useful ; he studies it because he finds pleasure in it, and he finds pleasure in it because it is beautiful," and this beauty is an...

...the imagination can produce. The great French astronomer and scientist Henri Poincare tells us that the scientist does not study nature because it is...pleases him, and it pleases him because it is beautiful. He says, "Were nature not beautiful, she would not be worth knowing, life would not be worth living....

...for truth. One of the greatest of scientists kept alive his sense for first things. Says Poincare: The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If 1 The Measure of the Hours, p....