Adornment Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.

— Thomas Jefferson

The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science…

— Henry David Thoreau

Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is,…

— Joseph Paxton

“Many people spend time studying the properties of animals or herbs; how much more important to study those people, with whom we live or…

— Baltasar Gracián

Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and…

— Leo Tolstoy

Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things…

— Polykarp Kusch

I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart…

— Abraham Coles

All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.

— Ann Druyan

“The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences. [All the other sciences] have a relation, greater or lesser, to…

— David Hume

Science has helped us to understand and master ourselves, creating an elevated new form of human life, the wealth and beauty of which cannot…

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left?…

— Novalis