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734 Exact quotes by 612 unique authors

In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and solid knowledge, they… — William Whewell
It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are… — Charles Sanders Peirce
The inventor and the research man are confused because they both examine results of physical or chemical operations. But they are exact opposites, mirror images… — Reginald Fessenden
There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process… — Wallace D. Wattles
The real people nation have for centuries had the practice at birth of speaking the same first phrase to all newborns. Each person hears the… — Marlo Morgan
The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in this… — John Herschel
Among innumerable footsteps of divine providence to be found in the works of nature, there is a very remarkable one to be observed in the… — John Arbuthnot
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely… — H. L. Mencken
Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism. — Francis Crick
Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of… — John Stuart Mill
The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some 50 years ago… — Hermann Kolbe
The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a… — James Prescott Joule
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the… — Bertrand Russell
In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses, until yet other… — Isaac Newton
It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of indefinite combination, and… — Charles Babbage
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce… — James Clerk Maxwell
This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking... — G. Stanley Hall
Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more exact the drawing… — Paul Cezanne
Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He has not the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor and traveller, the… — Walt Whitman
When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a… — Claude Monet
Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the greatest play isn't… — Lincoln Steffens
I have assured His Majesty that our war is against evil, not against Islam. There are thousands of Muslims who proudly call themselves Americans, and… — George W. Bush

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