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Science Quotes by Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
- Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
- Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems…
- Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in…
- ... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.
- ... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.
- Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good.
- Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.
- The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.
- Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.
- In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the…
- The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final…
- Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing;…
- He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.
- Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.
- For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater…
- We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.
- A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of…
- The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
- The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
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