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Physical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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The chief point we must remember is that the great and rapid advance of the physical sciences took place in fields where… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The first generation of biotech physically cut and pasted from one organism to another. You learned that taxol helped cure cancer, then… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which… — Hans Kramers Copy Share Image
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A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
Neither physical science nor psychology can ever 'explain' human consciousness. To me then, human consciousness lies outside science, and it is here… — Nevill Francis Mott Copy Share Image
It is instructive, although somewhat disheartening, for the ardent advocate of a purely scientific psychology to contrast the practice and theories of… — George Trumbull Ladd Copy Share Image
An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
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In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate… — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
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“It behoves us always to remember that in physics it has taken great men to discover simple things. . . . How far even then… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
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The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
Unlike the position that exists in the physical sciences, in economics and other disciplines that deal with essentially complex phenomena, the aspects… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
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It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena... The… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
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The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
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