Ancient Quote by Edmund Husserl

I mean, I spent 30 years in the world of physical perfection, right? I've known most of the world's most perfect physical specimens over…

— Jim Lampley

Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for…

— David Bressoud

Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as…

— Hermann Weyl

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.

— Brian Greene

“Some may smile and may feel that this is but a new version of the old dream of the perfection of man. It is…

— Siddharta Mukherjee

“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton,…

— Hermann Weyl

I think sometimes since we have so much technology today it's easy to overproduce things and perfect things in a way that's not really…

— Amber Rubarth

[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

— Jules Verne

At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us…

— Karl Mannheim

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we…

— Denis Diderot

“even the most seemingly abstract, sublimely theoretical, mathematicized achievements of science have in reality moved only a step or two away from a prehistoric,…

— Stanisław Lem

Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked…

— Gian-Carlo Rota