Categories Quote by Johannes Kepler

In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.

— Anonymous

In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of…

— Walter Rudolf Hess

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

Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept…

— Albert Einstein

One cannot use with impunity the different categories of beings-animals, plants, the natural elements-simply as one wishes, according to economic needs. One must take…

— Pope John Paul II

The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

To trace the development of mind from earliest times ... requires ... not a categorical concept, but a functional one.... The most promising operational…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

“For we may remark generally of our mathematical researches, that these auxiliary quantities, these long and difficult calculations into which we are often drawn,…

— Louis Poinsot

We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.

— Marvin Minsky

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

— Isaac Newton

In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word which implies…

— Arthur Schuster

The notions that nature exists to serve us; that its value consists of the instrumental benefits we can extract; that this value can be…

— George Monbiot