Ability Quote by E. O. Wilson

It's very useful to have a good grasp of all the big ideas in hard and soft science. A, it gives perspective. B, it…

— Charlie Munger

In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is…

— Hans Kramers

Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief…

— Vivian Gornick

Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.

— Aristotle

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

— Carl Sagan

The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like…

— William Stanley Jevons

Seeing and playing with physical objects can enable access to symbolic ideas. When I studied physics and math at university it was all done…

— Margaret Wertheim

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

— Abraham Flexner

Science is a particular way of thinking about things.

— Lilian Katz

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…

— James Jeans

One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand, nor by…

— George E. P. Box

Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating…

— Bertrand Russell