Physical Sciences Quotes
20 quotes by 19 authors
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It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists much prejudice against…
— William Stanley Jevons
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Only about seventy years ago was chemistry, like a grain of seed from a ripe fruit, separated from the other physical sciences. With Black, Cavendish…
— Justus von Liebig
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But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned between theory and…
— Nicholas Metropolis
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One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been…
— Jacob Bronowski
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If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said nothing about God,…
— David Berlinski
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The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.
— Andrew Dickson White
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Since coming to Congress, I have been advocating for increased resources for research in the physical sciences and for the Department of Energy Office of…
— Judy Biggert
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As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of…
— Judy Biggert
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Instruction in academia did not emphasize what I thought of as essential points. I was interested in the broad range of interrelated connections within the…
— Jacque Fresco
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If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate them in their…
— Wolfgang Kohler
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The greatest discovery of the 19th century was not in the realm of the physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious mind touched by…
— William James
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The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid to its enforcement…
— William Farr
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In an information economy, entrepreneurs master the science of information in order to overcome the laws of the purely physical sciences. They can succeed because…
— George Gilder
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I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological…
— Alexis Denisof
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I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.
— Ian Hacking
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The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the aura…
— Thomas Sowell
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The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws of the physical…
— Bertrand Russell
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This line of research continued when I went, and brought my research group with me, to the new University of California, Irvine campus in 1966…
— Frederick Reines
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The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of…
— Blaise Pascal
Who Wrote These Physical Sciences Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 20 Physical Sciences Quotes as follows: