Sciences Quotes

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The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the history… — Nicholas Murray Butler
...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his… — Samuel Johnson
Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a man to know… — Henry Suso
In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment… — Sydney Brenner
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
Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences. — Samuel R. Delany
In the evening, since I have a lot of friends in theater, we might take in a Deaf West production in North Hollywood, or, since… — Tim DeKay
Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology. — Micky Dolenz
If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear… — Wilhelm Dilthey
The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to… — Wilhelm Dilthey
With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot… — Claude Bernard
Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that very feature being… — I. Bernard Cohen
It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times… — Francis Bacon
Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by… — Thomas Carlyle
One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at… — Gottfried Leibniz
Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of dharma ("religion")-for it… — Paramahansa Yogananda
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
To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience… — Leonardo da Vinci
Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had… — Avicenna

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