Art Quotes

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In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first… — Thomas Jefferson
A menial task which must be mine, that shall I glorify and make an art of it. — Walter Russell
For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took its rise from… — Herman Boerhaave
In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all… — George Bernard Shaw
The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids… — Thomas Jefferson
Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in… — Ernst Haeckel
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied,… — Remy de Gourmont
At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was… — Aristotle
The essence of knowledge is generalization. That fire can be produced by rubbing wood in a certain way is a knowledge derived by generalization from… — Hans Reichenbach
...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The answer is synthesis,… — Garry Kasparov
Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science]. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is myself; science is… — Claude Bernard
And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible… — Thomas Hobbes
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance. — Muriel Spark
Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of… — Charles Lamb
During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth is now obsolete.… — Max Born
In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men… — Bertrand Russell
Industry is best at the intersection of science and art. — Edwin Land
It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should influence ethics and… — Jacques Barzun
No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science. — William Hazlitt
The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may… — William Blackstone
To be worthy of the name, an experimenter must be at once theorist and practitioner. While he must completely master the art of establishing experimental… — Claude Bernard
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which… — Simone Weil
Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what… — Hippocrates

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