Science Quotes by Immanuel Kant

“Give me matter and i will build a world out of it.”

— Immanuel Kant

Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

— Immanuel Kant

Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.

— Immanuel Kant

Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

— Immanuel Kant

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

— Immanuel Kant

Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.

— Immanuel Kant

An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.

— Immanuel Kant

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

— Immanuel Kant

The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one…

— Immanuel Kant

It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account…

— Immanuel Kant

Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

— Immanuel Kant

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them:…

— Immanuel Kant

The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it…

— Immanuel Kant

God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into…

— Immanuel Kant

The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science…

— Immanuel Kant

Natural science physics contains in itself synthetical judgments a priori, as principles. ... Space then is a necessary representation a priori, which…

— Immanuel Kant

Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be…

— Immanuel Kant

Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the…

— Immanuel Kant

If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and…

— Immanuel Kant

“To appeal to common sense when insight and science fail, and no sooner—this is one of the subtle discoveries of modern times,…

— Immanuel Kant

The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display…

— Immanuel Kant

A science of all these possible kinds of space [the higher dimensional ones] would undoubtedly be the highest enterprise which a finite…

— Immanuel Kant

To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good…

— Immanuel Kant

“...We find that the more a cultivated reason applies itself with deliberate purpose to the enjoyment of life and happiness, so much…

— Immanuel Kant

“Mathematics, natural science, laws, arts, even morality, etc. do not completely fill the soul; there is always a space left over reserved…

— Immanuel Kant

“Here then we see philosophy brought to a critical position, since it has to be firmly fixed, notwithstanding that it has nothing…

— Immanuel Kant

“...[R]eason of itself, independent on all experience, ordains what ought to take place, that accordingly actions of which perhaps the world has…

— Immanuel Kant

Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who…

— Immanuel Kant

We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a…

— Immanuel Kant

“[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehended that reason has insight only…

— Immanuel Kant

“It will be seen how there can be the idea of a special science, the *critique of pure reason* as it may…

— Immanuel Kant

“Our critique is not opposed to the *dogmatic procedure* of reason in its pure knowledge as science (for science must always be…

— Immanuel Kant

“...[P]hysics... [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws.”

— Immanuel Kant

All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

— Immanuel Kant

All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

— Immanuel Kant

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

— Immanuel Kant

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of…

— Immanuel Kant

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

— Immanuel Kant

I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.

— Immanuel Kant