THE SCIENTIFIC MAN      

DR. QUIMBY'S DISCOURSE

 ON SCIENCE

The word "Science"
represents the name of the process
by which man arrives at a truth -
while the process itself is Science.

The word "Science"
is the name of the Wisdom
that sees through the opinions of man.

Science is a wisdom superior to opinions.
It is not seen or known by opinions.
It is harmony.

The study of the philosophy of Science
is entertaining and instructive -
but the utility of Science is, after all,
the great point to be attained in its advances.

Science must be put into practice - else it is not Science!

Science only leads the world in true philosophy,
never making man sick or diseased.
A belief in any Science that can be proved
never makes a man sick.
Science knows that disease
is the effect of opinions and ignorance.

Science never made man or child unhappy to know it.
It sometimes makes them unhappy in getting it.
This is where all the trouble is....

Men who are lazy
would rather give an opinion
on a scientific subject
than to investigate it.

Science is to labor for what we receive -
and the reward is happiness.

Science has no dealing with the opinions of man
but tests all things by a standard
 - not of man -
but of Science,
which does not say,
"Believe this or that"
but shows its opinions by its works.

It does not ask you to believe
what your fathers believed
- if it is false -
but proves all things
so that the natural man will believe.

Science dictates to no man
but proves all things.

Science requires not even a belief to establish itself.
Science has no beliefs - but tries all beliefs.
 
Science admits nothing but facts.
Science cannot admit what cannot be proved.

Science
- being the body of Wisdom -
every man's Science shows
the capacity of his intelligence.
Science was never known to have
any connection with ignorance.

To know Science is to know Wisdom.
Science has its identity in Wisdom and is eternal.

How can a man work a mathematical problem intelligently,
and at the same time say he is not aware of the fact?
It cannot be done -
and so it is with every act of our lives.

Science is in every thought.
If we know the true meaning of every word or thought,
we should know what follows -
so that a person cannot scientifically act wrong.

Science never acts
except like a balance which judges correctly -
it contains no thought or reason,
but judges everyone according to his worth.

Science is Truth.

Truth is not Science,
for a man may tell the truth without knowing it -
but if the truth comes from Wisdom,
the process of getting it is a Science.

The wisdom of this world tells what others know.
It takes memory of events
and the history of the learned for Science.

But Science talks what it knows
and stands ready to prove it by works.

The standard of Science
never goes back to precedents for its proof -
but shows its Science by its works.
 
If it goes back,
it is to show that the world has progressed
 - not to "rake up" some wisdom -
but to show that the world
has progressed
every day
in Science.

Science embraces something that is "spiritual,"
or a revelation from a higher state of mind
than that of the brutes -
so to me Science is the name of that Wisdom
that accounts for all phenomena
that the natural man or beast
cannot understand.

To illustrate:
You throw a ball into the air -
every child will soon learn that the ball will return.
To acknowledge it simply as a fact is not Science -
but Science is in the act, not known.
But to know understandingly that it will return
with just as much force as it received
is Science.

When it can be reduced to practice
and conveyed to the mind of man -
it then becomes a Science.

Science is to reduce every act of our lives to a Science
so that man can get the most happiness
out of the least labor.

Man's body is only a machine,
and its senses are its medium to Wisdom -
the same as Science is the medium to Wisdom.
The real man is never seen by the natural senses,
but the real man makes himself known through Science
to his natural senses,
as a person who knows a fact
can teach it to another.

Wisdom or knowledge
he teaches through Science,
and he uses his senses to explain this Science -
for his senses are all the medium the natural man knows.

Take away all Science from a man,
and you have a complete animal -
(though not as complete as some.)

Science is the developing of matter
according to the principles of Wisdom.
Matter must go through changes
before it becomes a medium
for the light of Wisdom
to form or create scientific truths
and develop them by a Science.

You know that Science is progression -
and that its truths always have existed and always must.
Even if all the people were swept from the earth -
still the truth of Science would exist.

So as Science progresses,
religious creeds give way to a higher intellectual belief -
and so superstition in regard to religion
will die out as men grow wise,
for Wisdom is all the religion that can stand,
and this is to know ourselves
- not as a man -
but as part of Wisdom.
 
To know ourselves is to know Science
which proves all things.

The introduction of religion based on Science
is the commencement of the New World.
The Science which shall devour our errors
is the teaching of this Great Truth.
Then a New World begins
and a new religion
springs up
based on Science.

Under this religion
no man will say to another,
"Do what is right,"
for all will do right
because he will feel right in so doing.

When Science shall come,
wisdom will take the place of the drugs of the physicians
and the tormenting hell-fire of the priests.
Men will be guided by the
Star of Science
which points the way to
Wisdom.
 
But medicine will be administered to the sick
until the time when Science shall step in
and make a sacrifice of all these errors -
and then will come the end.

When Science comes,
it makes an end to all these deceptions
and introduces a new mode of reasoning
to all who will receive it.

The new heaven
is this new mode of reasoning -
and to enter into it
is to be "baptized in the blood"
(or belief)
of Jesus
which is Christ 
- or Science -
and which will wash away all opinions.

Science will destroy every false theory -
every superstitious breeze.

 So to
"teach the Gospel of Science"
you became fishers
(or teachers)
of Science -
instead of opinions.

This Science casts out all their fears
and teaches that
man is the author of his own troubles.

Science is sympathy or charity -
or a knowledge of both.

Science protects man from error,
but it does not protect him by upholding his error.
Science is the Wisdom that directs error.

Science is to labor for what we receive -
and the reward is happiness.

To cure the sick scientifically is laborious -
but to cure by books or opinions is nothing.

The process of finding a cause is a science and a labor.

The great obstacle in establishing a new science
in the understanding of the people
arises from their ignorance.
 
Science always has had to contend with this difficulty -
and no one has as yet been able to direct the mind of man
towards the true mode of reasoning
so that superstition should dissolve
before the advancing light of science -
for man has always been ignorant of himself,
and his errors he has fastened upon others.

These are two modes of reasoning
 - both true to the one that believes them -
and neither anything
to the person that knows the truth.

To the scientific mind
a superstition about anything
that Science has explained
is nothing.
But to the unscientific mind -
it may be a truth.

Science is to correct the errors
which heathen superstition have handed down to us.

Science is to correct every false direction
and point out the true one.

SCIENCE IS WISDOM

Wisdom is not Science, but truth -
which reduced to practice is called "Science."

Science is Wisdom put into practice.

Now the Science to be established
is to give a theory based on a truth
which can be applied to a false mode of reasoning,
which not only can destroy it
but can bring about a more perfect and better state of society
and sweep away the lies that,
like the locusts of Egypt,
are devouring our lives and happiness.

This cannot be done by any philosophy known to the world,
for the present mode of reasoning
is based on the very errors
the coming Science is to destroy.

Science does not make peace with the world -
it makes war.
It seeks not to save the life of error
but to destroy it.
It sets ideas at variance with each other,
the father against the son.
It sets the world of matter in motion,
that it may - like the earth -
be prepared to receive a higher cultivation.

Then there will arise a new science,
followed by a new mode of reasoning,
which shall teach man that
to be wise
is to unlearn his errors.

The time must come
when this false mode of reasoning
must give way to a higher Wisdom
where all things are proved by Science.

Science is the kingdom that will break in pieces all others.
Therefore every act must be weighed by Science,
for Science is the axe that will hew down every error.

Out of ignorance comes error,
and Science is the Wisdom that will destroy both
and put matter in a state of cultivation
to become the medium of Science.

Science is the friend of ignorance,
but being spiritual cannot be seen,
so it has to act through error on ignorance.

Science is the still small voice that says to error,
"Thus far shall thou go and no further."

Science and religion are not the same -
they are considered separate and apart in character.
Religion is cultivated by men
of aristocratic principles
and hypocritical motives
and modified as men become religious.

The former govern the world,
but in the end the Scientific Man will reign.

Let people become so enlightened
that they will worship Science as their God
instead of man's opinion about God -
then religion would prove by its works
whether it be of Science or opinion.

Science has an identity outside of matter,
working in man (or matter),
preparing him for a higher capacity
than the intellect of the brute.

This agent of Wisdom whose name is Science
is not seen by the natural man,
though he often hears him say,
"Beware how you act
for you are held accountable
for your every act."

Science and opinions run along together
like gold and dross.

Science's kingdom is in the Wisdom of the people.
Science checks the progress of error
and error checks that of Science.
Both act against each other,
but when error is destroyed,
Science is saved
as by fire.

Science never imparts opinion, but truth.
Science is a Wisdom superior to opinions.
Science shall test all opinions,
and when a man gives an opinion,
it will be taken as such -
and truth as truth.

Science is the truest friend to man
and he who follows its path
will find it leads to health and happiness.
Truly her ways are ways of pleasantness,
and all her paths are peace.

All science is inspiration
and from a spirit world
far above the natural man.

Every development of Science
proves the world's wisdom to be a lie,
for as it advances it opposes, face to face,
some popular error that the world believes true
and which leads man astray.

To discover a Science which will teach man
to be master of his own health and happiness
is to find a truth
by which man's thoughts can be tested
and their character analyzed.

Every phenomenon comes without learning or Wisdom
and the accounting for it brings out genius.
This genius looks for causes
and traces back the phenomenon to the cause -
and then reduces the investigation
to physical demonstration.
 
Science is to cultivate his Wisdom
so that he may become familiar
with every condition of the phenomenon -
from the first impression to the bearing of fruit -
for then it may not be too late to correct its growth.

This process is called Science; therefore,
Science is wisdom reduced to practice.

The healing art must be a Science or an error,
and when its advocates claim it as a Science,
the people have a right to call for proof.

Science says,
"Try and prove all things,
and hold fast that which is good."

Beware of "false Sciences," for there are many.
Try and see if they are of God or man.
If from God - they can be shown or proved;
but if from man - they rest on some opinion.

Science is the sun that burns up the clouds -
or changes the beliefs of man - 
and a little ray of intelligence springs up,
and the cloud of superstition vanishes
as the true God appears.

Science never separates;
it is from everlasting to everlasting,
it has no beginning nor end.

This Science teaches that there never was -
nor can be - "another world."
You leave the body of belief
and take that of Science
and rise into health.
This is the "resurrection of the dead."

Wisdom is not Science but truth,
which reduced to practice is called Science.
For when it is understood it ceases to be a Science
and becomes Wisdom to all who know it.

Science detects the direction that is given to imagination
and corrects it, if false.
Wisdom destroys these false ideas,
purifies the soil,
and brings the mind under a higher state of cultivation.

Science destroys error and sets the truth free.
This is the work of Science.
Science is in unlearning
what ignorance and superstition
have bequeathed to man.

Science, as it is called,
is something that the natural man worships.
He looks upon it as coming from some superior power
independent of himself,
when his own wisdom is all the "science" he knows of.
 (For to the fool who knows nothing, there is no Science.)

We talk about the very Wisdom
that the natural man calls a "gift."
He calls it a Science
when he is the very Science himself
and knows it not.

I will make one illustration:
Everyone will admit
that a musician can play by note
and compose music
and teach it to another -
this is a Science.
 
Now is it Wisdom above the man
who cannot play or compose?
All will say, "Yes."
His Wisdom is a mystery to the natural man,
but he knows that he can teach that Wisdom to another,
  so he calls it a Science
to distinguish it from that wisdom
that arises from an opinion.

Science is Wisdom
reduced to self-evident propositions
which have an identity.
So that Science is a child that progresses
and receives wisdom according to its capacity to take it up.
Or it is like water that takes up salt -
it is capable of taking up just so much and no more.
 
Man and beast... fish and foul...
and every creeping thing that has life -
except the Scientific Man -
have their bounds that they cannot pass,
and when they arrive at Perfection,
they either recede
or assume a Wisdom superior to their race.
 
Man is the only one
who has ever been capable of teaching a Science
or of proving it by self-evident Wisdom.

Science is the axe in the hands of Wisdom
to hew down this wilderness and destroy its inhabitants
and introduce a better state of society.
It is the natural result of Science
to destroy error and prejudice.

Science will reign until all error is put out of existence;
and when this great Science is established in this world
as it is in Wisdom,
then to be great is to be wise in Science.

The light of Science
is health and happiness
and its light is its truth
and the length of its days.

The Science I teach is the Wisdom of God
to the senses in the spirit world.

This Science is inexhaustible -
and the more you have
the more you want -
and you will find this continually exciting you.
 
For this Science opens such a field to the traveler
that he cares not to eat or sleep,
but his happiness is in investigating the regions
that lie open before him.

Seek how to enlighten man in science,
and as science is developed,
man becomes wise and happy.
His life is in his knowledge,
and his knowledge is a science.

So to put his science into practice for his own happiness
is to correct some error that man has embraced -
and to prove the science
is to take something that man is troubled about
in the form of disease
and to correct his opinion
so that it changes his health.

Science is to correct all error or phenomena
that the natural man cannot correct intelligently.

If I can show that man's happiness is in his belief
and his misery is the effect of his belief,
then I shall have done
what never has been done before.

Establish this
and man rises to a higher state of wisdom -
not of this world -
but of that world of science
that sees that all human misery
can be corrected by this principle,
as well as the evil effects
of errors in any science.

Then the Science of Life
takes its place with other sciences.
Then is brought to pass,
"Oh death! (or error)
Where is thy sting!
Oh grave!
Where is thy victory!"

The sting of ignorance is death
but the wisdom of science
is eternal
to all who believe it.

The natural man is made of flesh and blood.
Science is not.
Man is of matter.
Science is not.
Man has life.
Science is life.
Man has sight.
Science is sight.
Man has feeling.
Science is feeling.
Man has all of the five senses.
Science is all of the five senses.
Man of himself cannot do anything.
Science can do all things.

Science's God is Wisdom.
Science is to know Wisdom.
Science is God's religion.
Science is the Voice of God.
Science is the Child of Wisdom.
Science is the embodiment of God's Wisdom.
Science is Knowledge.
Science is Light.
Science is Freedom.
Science is Strong.
Science is curing the disease.
Science is Eternal Life.
Science is Harmony.
God is one of the names of Science.
Science is one character of God.
Science is spiritual and belongs to the spiritual man. 
Science is Love.
Science is the Saviour.
Christ is Science; Science is Christ.
Science is the True Shepard.
Science is the religion of Jesus.
Science is the Son of God.
Science is Spiritual.
Science is the Real Man.
Science is the True Man.
Science is the Scientific Man.
Science is Progression.

Science is connected with eternal life
or the First Principles.
The gift of science is of God
which is eternal life.

Science is God.
Science is the one living and true God to worship.

Science is Truth.