Natural Science Quotes

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All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious… — Roger Bacon
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. — William Blake
In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I passed around a… — Louis Agassiz
Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects… — Arthur Schopenhauer
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation. — Carl Linnaeus
Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The conclusion forced upon me in the course of a life devoted to natural science is that the universe as it is assumed to be… — John B. S. Haldane
Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all… — Immanuel Kant
The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually… — George Santayana
The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification. But… — Karl Landsteiner
I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone. — Hippocrates
Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments,… — Humphry Davy
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means of its organic… — Justus von Liebig
If it is impossible to judge merit and guilt in the field of natural science, then it is not possible in any field, and historical… — Justus von Liebig
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
I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has… — James A. Garfield
As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space. — Charles Scott Sherrington
In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it. — Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

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