Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

All science is a charted ignorance and belongs to Maya.

Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure civilization is, and how precariously it is poised upon the apex of a never-extinct volcano of poor and oppressed barbarism, superstition and ignorance. Modernity is a cap superimposed upon the Middle Ages, which always remain.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.