[Kepler] had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The deep study of nature is the most fruitful source of mathematical discoveries. By offering to research a definite end, this study… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first halt before… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called mathematics,… — Robert Watson-Watt Copy Share Image
“Astronomy is, not without reason, regarded, by mankind, as the sublimest of the natural sciences. Its objects so frequently visible, and therefore… — Benjamin Silliman Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is not a science from our point of view, in the sense that it is not a natural science. The test… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
I don't really bill myself as an atheist, even though there is a lot of atheism in naturalism. I would rather bill… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Almost everyone... seems to be quite sure that the differences between the methodologies of history and of the natural sciences are vast.… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to… — Edgar Douglas Adrian Copy Share Image
“Thus natural science is not a way of knowing the real world; its value lies not in its truth but in its… — R.G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
Unless we proceed cautiously, there might well arise a few generations of mystics who conceive of the orgone metaphysically, divorced from non-living… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the condensation… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“Ahistorical commentators who too readily dismiss Nietzsche's interest in physiological questions (e.g., DeMan 1979: 119; Nehamas 1985: 120) miss the centrality of… — Brian Leiter Copy Share Image
“We now live in the Esperantists’ dreamworld, but the universal language of natural science is English, a language that is the native… — Michael D. Gordin Copy Share Image
“All discourses and disciplines proceed from commitments and beliefs that are ultimately religious in nature. No scientific discourse (whether natural science or… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for… — Karl Landsteiner Copy Share Image
I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects.… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
In the course of the history of natural science, it always happens that profound or true thoughts or true facts were always… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never-relaxing crusade against skepticism and dogmatism, against disbelief and against… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image