The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine. — Vera Kistiakowsky Copy Share Image
Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Physical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms. — Richard Henry Dana, Jr Copy Share Image
If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
The humanities need to be defended to-day against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
Within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which… — Hans Kramers Copy Share Image
I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical… — Alexis Denisof Copy Share Image
In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The conclusion forced upon me in the course of a life devoted to natural science is that the universe as it is… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
The social sciences, like much of biology but unlike most fields of the physical sciences, have to deal with structures of essential… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The plain message physical science has for the world at large is this, that were our political and social and moral devices… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not… — Arthur David Ritchie Copy Share Image
The first generation of biotech physically cut and pasted from one organism to another. You learned that taxol helped cure cancer, then… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
John Marks Templeton has achieved exemplary success in both business and philanthropy. For Looking Forward he has assembled a diverse and remarkable… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
“If and when all the laws governing physical phenomena are finally discovered, and all the empirical constants occurring in these laws are… — George Gamow Copy Share Image
But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned… — Nicholas Metropolis Copy Share Image
A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
“The new mathematics is a sort of supplement to language, affording a means of thought about form and quantity and a means… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that… — Albert Abraham Michelson Copy Share Image
“ Newton supposed that the case of the planet was similar to that of [a ball spun around on the end of… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
“This irrelevance of molecular arrangements for macroscopic results has given rise to the tendency to confine physics and chemistry to the study… — Walter M. Elsasser Copy Share Image
“It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things. . . . You… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Plato argued that the material world of visible things was but a shadow of the true reality of eternal forms. He proceeds… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“It behoves us always to remember that in physics it has taken great men to discover simple things. . . . How far even then… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns. (75)” — Anonymous Copy Share Image