Stem/science

Famous quotes containing the words stem and/or science:

    The melon is growing but its stem is shriveling.
    Russian popular saying, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)

    For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)