Health is not an objective condition which can be understood by the methods of natural science alone. It is rather a condition… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Even if many really were nothing but a piano-key, even if this were proved to him by natural science and mathematics, even… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
Investing is not a natural science but rather a social science. So, it's never purely empirical; what you are trying to do… — William Browne Copy Share Image
Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics,… — Anonymous 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
The history of the development of mechanics is quite indispensable to a full comprehension of the science in its present condition. It… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
“Because they are assertions about Being in the light of time properly understood, all ontological propositions are Temporal propositions. It is only… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
“Mathematics, natural science, laws, arts, even morality, etc. do not completely fill the soul; there is always a space left over reserved… — Immanuel Kant 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
The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a… — Alexander von Humboldt 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
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
The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
[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
An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met… — J. J. C. Smart 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
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
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
The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“The question what presuppositions underlie the 'physics' or natural science of a certain people at a certain time is a purely historical… — R.G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the queen of sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from… — Carroll Quigley 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
“Unlike the first two Critiques, which ground the doctrinal metaphysical systems of natural science and morals, the Critique of Judgment has no specific metaphysical… — Anonymous 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
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some supernatural agency-or, rather, Agency-must be involved. Is it possible that… — George Greenstein 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
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
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
Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
The tendencies are considerably weaker in the natural sciences, which, for the past several centuries, have survived and flourished through such constant… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have never, so far, in all the studies I have done, met a contradiction between what the human, experimental and natural… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image