Sciences Quotes

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Let's stick to the practical and the concrete: Would you like it if people lived in a virtual world? If machines were smarter than people?… — Theodore Kaczynski
The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue. — Frances Wright
It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want is the fear to… — U.G. Krishnamurti
Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal because-the living world constituting but a tiny and very "special" part of… — Jacques Monod
Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret… — Michel de Montaigne
"Happy he that knows Thee, even if he knows nothing else," says St. Augustine. If we knew all the sciences and knew not how to… — Alphonsus Liguori
Liebig taught the world two great lessons. The first was that in order to teach chemistry it was necessary that students should be taken into… — Ira Remsen
Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice. — Isaac Watts
I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age or even time...… — Unknown Author
But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security… — Albert Einstein
If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics. — George Santayana
But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us… — Gottfried Leibniz
Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and… — Wilhelm Wundt
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
Psychology must not only strive to become a useful basis for the other mental sciences, but it must also turn again and again to the… — Wilhelm Wundt
The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator… — Wilhelm Wundt
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
There are plenty of things that are unknown, but are assumed reasonably to exist, even in the most basic sciences. Maybe 90 percent of the… — Noam Chomsky
We seem to forget that innovation doesn't just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place. Innovation in the… — John Maeda
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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