Sciences Quotes

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Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study of ultimate (evolutionary)… — Ernst Mayr
As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of… — Louis Pasteur
I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must… — Denis Diderot
It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are… — Charles Sanders Peirce
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct… — John von Neumann
Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with that… — Charles Lapworth
'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true… — David Hume
There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences. — Miguel de Cervantes
The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry by… — Claude Bernard
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place… — Thomas Jefferson
The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification. But… — Karl Landsteiner
"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ...… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear… — Victor Hugo
If there is anything that can bind the heavenly mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with… — Johannes Kepler
[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it… — G. H. Hardy
True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most,… — Henri Frederic Amiel
The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It is an endless… — Charles Lapworth
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely… — H. L. Mencken

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