Exact Science Quotes

32 quotes by 27 authors

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the… — Amelia Barr
Politics is not an exact science. — Otto von Bismarck
Life is not an exact science, it is an art. — Samuel Butler
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge… — Arthur Conan Doyle
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
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
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
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
The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science just as the chemistry in the times of Lavoisier, who made the… — Wilhelm Johannsen
That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature may, after all,… — Thomas Hunt Morgan
If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics has… — Cassius Jackson Keyser
[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as a creative art,… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt by constant changes… — Adolf Hitler
An exact science is one that admits loss. — Genesis P-Orridge
Hitting is an art, but not an exact science. — Rod Carew
Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does not attempt to… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Hindsight is an exact science. — Guy Bellamy
Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science,… — Carl Jung
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. — Arthur Conan Doyle
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. — Bertrand Russell

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