Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached… — William Mitchinson Hicks Copy Share Image
The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral,… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
The most important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that… — Albert A. Michelson Copy Share Image
The humanities need to be defended to-day against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
The conclusion forced upon me in the course of a life devoted to natural science is that the universe as it is… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
The phenomena in these exhausted tubes reveal to physical science a new world-a world where matter may exist in a fourth state,… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
“In fact, confusion over units was not confined to electricity and magnetism. When two people spoke of a quantity like 'force' or… — Basil Mahon Copy Share Image
The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“My life is bound … ; not so the life of humanity, … [T]he future always unveils the fact that the alleged… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine. — Vera Kistiakowsky Copy Share Image
The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid… — William Farr Copy Share Image
The theory that gravitational attraction is inversely proportional to the square of the distance leads by remorseless logic to the conclusion that… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
“Plato argued that the material world of visible things was but a shadow of the true reality of eternal forms. He proceeds… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..." — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are… — James J. Gibson Copy Share Image
If one might wish for impossibilities, I might then wish that my children might be well versed in physical science, but in… — Tom Arnold Copy Share Image
In an information economy, entrepreneurs master the science of information in order to overcome the laws of the purely physical sciences. They… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
