Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than…

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of…

— Albert Einstein

The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of…

— Ludwig von Mises

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.

— Eugene Wigner

An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met with the…

— J. J. C. Smart

The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a science for…

— Alexander von Humboldt

I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can…

— J. B. Bury

If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics…

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

“The Age of Intellect is accompanied by surprising advances in natural science. In the ninth century, for example, in the age of Mamun, the…

— John Bagot Glubb

“The question what presuppositions underlie the 'physics' or natural science of a certain people at a certain time is a purely historical question as…

— R.G. Collingwood

Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to…

— Immanuel Kant

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

— Anonymous

Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce…

— Maria Montessori

A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.

— Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

The tendencies are considerably weaker in the natural sciences, which, for the past several centuries, have survived and flourished through such constant challenge, and…

— Noam Chomsky

Investing is not a natural science but rather a social science. So, it's never purely empirical; what you are trying to do is everything…

— William Browne