I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one. — William James Copy Share Image
It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
There is knowledge of God and the spiritual nature of man, as well as other types of reality..., that are not reducible… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
We often say that our science is objective and accurate, but we don't often say that our science is incomplete - that… — Jim Peebles Copy Share Image
“More than ever before, it was assumed that the methods of natural science could be—and should be—used to understand and solve the… — Laura J. Snyder Copy Share Image
“natural science is likely to be soon exhausted. Passing by many particulars of the discipline” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A man may possess a profound knowledge of history and mathematics; he may be an authority in psychology, biology, or astronomy; he… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
To write about history or language is supposed to be within the reach of every man. To write about natural science is… — Edward Augustus Freeman Copy Share Image
The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
To understand the magic way of thinking you have to know non-magic thinking. If you see that clearly, you will see how… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Whether...a change from the supremacy of natural science to a new social science will take place...depends on one factor: how many brilliant,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is still open to question whether psychology is a natural science, or whether it can be regarded as a science at… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
“discussions about the authority of the gospel the word “reason” is often used as though it were an independent source of information… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
We ought not to believe those who today, adopting a philosophical air and with a tone of superiority, prophesy the decline of… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
For us there is no ignorabimus, and in my opinion none whatever in natural science. In opposition to the foolish ignorabimus our… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image