We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive. — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak… — Plato Copy Share Image
what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy;… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“From some angles, up is toward the earth and down toward the sky, and everything—people, horses, cathedrals, dreams—is suspended over the ceaseless… — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia ... is truly but the beginning… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
“Natural Philosophy cannot advance without attacking theories that are old, and beating back new ones that are wrong, neither of which may… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“If your wish is to become really a man of science and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In every principle presented to us, our first inquiry should be, "Is it true?" "Does it emanate from God?" If he is… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then 'natural philosophy' became physics, and physics has only continued to make… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We find sects and parties in most branches of science; and disputes which are carried on from age to age, without being… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
“ Oersted would never have made his great discovery of the action of galvanic currents on magnets had he stopped in his… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“In the popular folklore of American history, there is a sense in which the founders’ various achievements in natural philosophy—Franklin’s electrical experiments,… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
“Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate; I desire, therefore, in this narration, to state those facts which led… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things. — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Natural Magick is taken to be nothing else, but the chief power of all the natural Sciences; which therefore they call the… — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Copy Share Image
“Primary causes are unknown to us; but are subject to simple and constant laws, which may be discovered by observation, the study… — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus,… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
I am myself an empiric in natural philosophy, suffering my faith to go no further than my facts. I am pleased, however,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Scientific wealth tends to accumulate according to the law of compound interest. Every addition to knowledge of the properties of matter supplies… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one,… — Balfour Stewart Copy Share Image
All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from… — David Hume Copy Share Image
All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Civil Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man; being… — Thomas Tredgold Copy Share Image
This incomparable Author having at length been prevailed upon to appear in public, has in this Treatise given a most notable instance… — Edmond Halley Copy Share Image
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