Application Quote by Charles Babbage

In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.

— Anonymous

In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently the most…

— Charles Babbage

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

— Winston Churchill

Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems…

— Francis Bacon

It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many…

— Francis Bacon

The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the…

— Freeman Dyson

I'm suggesting that principles meant to deal with uncertainty that occurs naturally can be useful to manage the uncertainty that characterizes any new idea.

— Scott D. Anthony

Consequently, the first thing to be done in any search after philosophic principles is to travel over the special sciences with a view to…

— Hugh Elliot

One may say that in a state of science where fundamental concepts have to be changed, tradition is both the condition for progress and…

— Werner Heisenberg

If principles can become dated, they're not principles.

— Warren Buffett

[Though computer science is a fairly new discipline, it is predominantly based on the Cartesian world view. As Edsgar W. Dijkstra has pointed out]…

— Edsger Dijkstra

Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuos development of new concepts.

— James Bryant Conant