The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked away inside the orderly cabinetry of science.
Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
Man's world is the planet of inexperience.
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.