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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
• 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
• The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in… — 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… — Hermann Kolbe
• This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking... — G. Stanley Hall
• 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
• 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
• The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in… — Werner Heisenberg
• Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the… — Herbert Hoover
• 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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