Relation Quotes

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According to my views, aiming at quantitative investigations, that is at establishing relations between measurements of phenomena, should take first place in the experimental practice… — Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
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 final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and… — Auguste Comte
[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should rest only on… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene of perpetual warfare,… — William Buckland
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow… — Ada Lovelace
The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since the statistician can… — Udny Yule
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not… — Ada Lovelace
Science has penetrated the constitution of nature, and unrolled the mysterious pages of its history, and started again many, as yet, unanswered questions in respect… — Noah Porter
While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached its highest goal… — William Mitchinson Hicks
The common belief that... the actual relations between religion and science over the last few centuries have been marked by deep and enduring hostility... is… — Colin Archibald Russell
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much… — Clifford Truesdell
A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible… — Henry Home, Lord Kames
Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes its course according… — Sun Tzu
There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something… — Anton Chekhov
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to… — Albert Einstein
cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a… — Immanuel Kant
...there are special sciences not because of the nature of our epistemic relation to the world, but because of the way the world is put… — Jerry Fodor
...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner has the biggest… — G. E. M. Anscombe
But it can also happen, if will and grace are joined, that as I contemplate the tree I am drawn into a relation, and the… — Martin Buber

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