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Natural Philosophy Quotes by Thomas Paine
- The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and…
- It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas…
- The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in…
- That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the study of the…
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- All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from… — David Hume
- what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy;… — Thomas Jefferson
- As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the… — Isaac Newton
- The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the… — H. L. Mencken
- Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus,… — Humphry Davy
- Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
- The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural… — Thomas Paine
- Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon
- I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires… — Michael Faraday
- I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one,… — Balfour Stewart
- In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia ... is truly but the beginning… — Augustus William Hare
- We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has… — Hannes Alfven