Relation Quotes

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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination. — Edmund Wilson
What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life. — Bertrand Russell
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. — Thomas Carlyle
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and… — Max Born
All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise. — Wallace D. Wattles
For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful to scientific chemistry;… — Charles Sanders Peirce
We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a sphere described with… — Immanuel Kant
What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity… — Albert Einstein
The surface of the earth is not simply a stage on which the thousands of present and past inhabitants played their parts in turn. There… — Louis Agassiz
The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle remain a mystery… — Louis Agassiz
Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum of… — Francois Magendie
Our confused wish finds expression in the confused question as to the nature of force and electricity. But the answer which we want is not… — Heinrich Hertz
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and… — George Boole
We need only reflect on what has been prov'd at large, that we are never sensible of any connexion betwixt causes and effects, and that… — David Hume
Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action. — Talcott Parsons
The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things. — Henri Poincare
The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and,… — Albert Einstein
The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields for slight contributions… — Robert Andrews Millikan
Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind… — Michael Faraday

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