Sciences Quotes

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But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned between theory and… — Nicholas Metropolis
[The infinitely small] neither have nor can have theory; it is a dangerous instrument in the hands of beginners [ ... ] anticipating, for my… — Francois-Joseph Servois
If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly… — Christine de Pizan
It is perplexing to see the flexibility of the so-called 'exact sciences' which by cast-iron laws of logic and by the infallible help of mathematics… — Vasco Ronchi
The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry into its nature… — Herbert Turnbull
A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes. — Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
...there are special sciences not because of the nature of our epistemic relation to the world, but because of the way the world is put… — Jerry Fodor
The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the… — Carl Gustav Hempel
When students of other sciences ask us what is now currently believed about the origin of species, we have no clear answer to give. Faith… — William Bateson
In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
In my more than 60 years as a member of the American scientific community, including service as president of both the National Academy of Sciences… — Frederick Seitz
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain… — M.C. Escher
In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a… — Hermann Hankel
But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies. — George Lucas
Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a… — Michael Kinsley
...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the… — Thomas Piketty
The study of economics has been again and again led astray by the vain idea that economics must proceed according to the pattern of other… — Ludwig von Mises
Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology to large scale… — Ilya Prigogine
A thesis has to be presentable... but don't attach too much importance to it. If you do succeed in the sciences, you will do later… — Paul Ehrenfest
Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run… — Francis Bacon

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