Accounts Quote by Ernst Mach

Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought

— Ernst Mach

Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the…

— Paul Valery

In science it is not enough to think of an important problem on which to work. It is also necessary to know the means…

— Leo Szilard

From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so…

— Talcott Parsons

In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity — and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the…

— E. O. Wilson

“Science requires both observation and comprehension. Without observation there are no facts to be comprehended; without comprehension science is mere documentation. The basis for…

— Occam s razor

A problem never exists in isolation; it is surrounded by other problems in space and time. The more of the context of a problem…

— Russell L. Ackoff

Physics is the most fundamental, and least significant, of the sciences.

— Ken Wilber

“Science is unable to set its own priorities. It is also incapable of determining what to do with its discoveries.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity.

— Richard Dawkins

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

— Edward Teller

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

— Anonymous