Sciences Quotes

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It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to extend… — David Hume
Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to the scientific inquirer,… — Oliver Heaviside
Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences do and can… — Jurgen Habermas
Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a… — James Jeans
All sciences are connected; they lend each other material aid as parts of one great whole, each doing its own work, not for itself alone,… — Roger Bacon
All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins. — Oliver Goldsmith
Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes. — Arthur Schopenhauer
For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves… — Emile Durkheim
Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were abandoning the study… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences. — Galileo Galilei
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have… — Charles Caleb Colton
The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of… — John Stuart Mill
The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind… — Francis Bacon
The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot. — Jonathan Swift
The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may… — William Blackstone
The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect… — Tacitus
The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some 50 years ago… — Hermann Kolbe
The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars. — Oliver Goldsmith
In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to say that the experimental results… — Karl Popper
Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is… — Charles Caleb Colton

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