Building Quote by Thomas Aquinas

So far I have been speaking of theoretical science, which is an attempt to understand the world. Practical science, which is an attempt to…

— Bertrand Russell

Science is practical philosophy.

— Rene Descartes

Consequently, the first thing to be done in any search after philosophic principles is to travel over the special sciences with a view to…

— Hugh Elliot

Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.

— Lisa Randall

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

— Abraham Flexner

[Though computer science is a fairly new discipline, it is predominantly based on the Cartesian world view. As Edsgar W. Dijkstra has pointed out]…

— Edsger Dijkstra

Physics and those parts of other fields that grow out of physics - chemistry, the structure of big molecules - in those domains, there…

— Noam Chomsky

For it is necessary in every practical science to proceed in a composite (i.e. deductive) manner. On the contrary in speculative science, it is…

— Thomas Aquinas

There are two ways in which a science develops; in response to problems which is itself creates, and in response to problems that are…

— Ian Hacking

The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not…

— Sigmund Freud

One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand, nor by…

— George E. P. Box

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for…

— Alexis Carrel