It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms. — Richard Henry Dana, Jr Copy Share Image
In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years. — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
“Aristotle's later view of the relationship between mathematics and Nature could not have been more different. He wanted to rescue physical science… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
“The new mathematics is a sort of supplement to language, affording a means of thought about form and quantity and a means… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
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
“In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns. (75)” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not trust financial market risk models. Despite the predilection of some analysts to model the financial markets using sophisticated mathematics, the… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
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
The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems… — H. G. Wells 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
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
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 is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by… — Thomas Henry Huxley 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
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
John Marks Templeton has achieved exemplary success in both business and philanthropy. For Looking Forward he has assembled a diverse and remarkable… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
“If and when all the laws governing physical phenomena are finally discovered, and all the empirical constants occurring in these laws are… — George Gamow Copy Share Image
“We have learnt that the exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads not to a concrete reality… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not… — Arthur David Ritchie Copy Share Image
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
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
