Art Quote by Henry David Thoreau

First, it is necessary to study the facts, to multiply the number of observations, and then later to search for formulas that connect them…

— Augustin-Louis Cauchy

It is generally believed that our science is empirical and that we draw our concepts and our mathematical constructs from the empirical data. If…

— Werner Heisenberg

Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless…

— Leonhard Euler

The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature causes the unknown to reveal themselves.

— Henry David Thoreau

Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general…

— Charles Darwin

When we human beings hypothesize that a law of nature holds - even temporarily or situationally - we are creating an idea, but we…

— Lee Smolin

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

— Carl Linnaeus

But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.

— Richard P. Feynman

Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don't make sense. And that's…

— Geoffrey West

There is nothing which Nature so clearly reveals, and upon which science so strongly insists, as the universal reign of law, absolute, universal, invariable…

— Joseph LeConte

Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your…

— Honore de Balzac

The most important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility…

— Albert A. Michelson