Aspect Quote by Edward Abbey

The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws…

— Samuel Johnson

I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.

— Immanuel Kant

Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an exact science.…

— William Stanley Jevons

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

— David Hilbert

“All science is a two-edged sword. It is pure only in the mind, at conception, as an idea, an equation, or just some new…

— David Ambrose

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could…

— Ezra Pound

It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which gives us the key…

— Albert Einstein

A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis,…

— Jacob Bronowski

Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries…

— Stephen Hawking

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

— Aristotle

“Science is a system of rational thought devised to investigate the world and establish the laws by which it operates. The scientist uses those…

— Joe Abercrombie

We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the intrinsic evidence…

— James Jeans