Liberty Bailey Quotes on Life (3 Quotes)

Fact is not to be worshipped. The life which is devoid of imagination is dead it is tied to the earth. There need be no divorce of fact and fancy they are only the poles of experience. What is called the scientific method is only imagination set within bo

I have no patience with the doctrine of pure science, that science is science only when it is uncontaminated by application in the arts of life and I also have no patience with the spirit that considers a piece of work to be legitimate only as it has direct bearing on the arts and affairs of men.

Even though the college man raises no more wheat than his neighbor, he will have more satisfaction raising it. He will know why he turns the clod he will challenge the worm that burrows in the furrow his eyes will follow the field mouse that scuds under the grass he will see the wild fowl winging its way across the heaven. All these things will add to the meaning of life and they are his.