Book Quote by John Locke

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

— Denis Diderot

Perhaps the best reason to consider the hard sciences is that, well, one study suggests science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry graduates live longer than…

— Warren Farrell

Beyond natural history Other biological sciences take up the study at other levels of organization: dissecting the individual into organs and tissues and seeing…

— Marston Bates

For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a…

— Derek Bok

Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot…

— John Locke

There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means…

— Francis Bacon

“The physical sciences capitalize on the lessons of the past, but the social sciences seldom do.”

— W. Cleon Skousen

For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose…

— Ian Hislop

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

“Commonalities, which need to be celebrated, exist among creative people – as they do in the sciences, the sports or in many other professions…

— Ellen Palestrant

Fact is, awards shows were never really about recognizing achievement. They were a publicity ploy cooked up in the late 1920s by MGM topper…

— John Ridley

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly…

— Rupert Murdoch