Sciences Quotes
477 quotes by 343 authors
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Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience... they are both a part of us and…
— Mae Jemison
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I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from…
— Ellen Ullman
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What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends…
— Jim Sanborn
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Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which theorems-general…
— Christopher Zeeman
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Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies…
— Ernst Boris Chain
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Nuclear industry proponents often assert that low doses of radiation (eg below 100mSV) produce no ill effects and are therefore safe. But , as the…
— Helen Caldicott
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The Engineer is one who, in the world of physics and applied sciences, begets new things, or adapts old things to new and better uses;…
— Henry R. Towne
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The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.
— Thomas de Quincey
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If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.
— James P. Gorman
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Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!... A man of mediocre talents…
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the aura…
— Thomas Sowell
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There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.
— Unknown Author
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The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits. An association of…
— Michael E. DeBakey
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I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics. Then I read something that one of my heroes,…
— Steve Jobs
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Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former -…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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