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Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the…
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It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the…
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For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful…
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The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life…
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True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men.…
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If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it…
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It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
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Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were…
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[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its…
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Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.
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It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.
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It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.
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It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its…
— H. L. Mencken
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The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in…
— John Stuart Mill
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The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some…
— Hermann Kolbe
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This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking...
— G. Stanley Hall
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It is perplexing to see the flexibility of the so-called 'exact sciences' which by cast-iron laws of logic and by the infallible…
— Vasco Ronchi
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By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up…
— M.C. Escher
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The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in…
— Werner Heisenberg
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Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the…
— Herbert Hoover
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You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have…
— Stephen Wolfram
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