We approach wheat with scales, we measure silk with a yardstick; we test the painting with taste and imagination, and the symphony with the sense of melody; motives and actions are tested by conscience; we approach the stars with a telescope, while purity of heart is the glass by which we see God.

The scales that are useful in the laboratory are utterly valueless in the art gallery.

The scientific faculty that fits Spencer for studying nature unfits him for studying art.

In his old age Huxley, the scientist, wrote an essay forty pages long to prove that man was more beautiful than woman.

Imagine some Tyndall approaching the transfiguration of Raphael to scrape off the colors and test them with acid and alkali for finding out the proportion of blue and crimson and gold.