Top 1200 Exact Sciences Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

The Hindus progressed in the subjective sciences.

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man. Every careful measurement in science is always given with the probable error ... every observer admits that he is likely wrong, and knows about how much wrong he is likely to be.

Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences.

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

I believe that life is meaningless without hope, which is really what that line is about. Without hope, what are we living for? I wouldn't wanna see where exactly I'd be in five years. I wouldn't wanna know my exact date of death. I wouldn't want to know my exact cause of death. Certain things I just want to allow to take place rather than just have the knowledge beforehand.

Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

Interest in the pseudo-sciences has become extraordinary.

Hard sciences are successful because they deal with the soft problems; soft sciences are struggling because they deal with the hard problems.

Physics is the most fundamental, and least significant, of the sciences.

I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences.

The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.

Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far as is known, not merely by inanimate things, but also by living organisms, in their minutest parts, as single individuals, and also as whole communities. It results from this that, however complicated a series of phenomena may be and however many other sciences may enter into its complete presentation, the purely physical aspect, or the application of the known laws of matter and energy, can always be legitimately separated from the other aspects.

The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences.

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.

If your reading habits are anything like mine, then you can remember the exact moment that certain books came into your life. You remember where you were standing and whom you were with. You remember the feel of the book in your hands and the cover, that exact cover, even if the art has changed over the years.

I do sense, as compared with let's say the early '50s, there's somewhat more of a careerism. I don't think it's anything special to economics; it's equally true with physics or biology. A graduate education has become a more career-oriented thing, and part of that is because of the need for funding. In fact, that's a much worse problem in the natural sciences than it is in economics. So you can't even do your work in the natural sciences, particularly, and even to some extent in economics, without funding.

Please don't make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid and damaging idea. You don't have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things... science is not a body of knowledge or a belief system, it is just a term that describes humankind's incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.

The government's duty is to support basic sciences.

Astrology, the noblest of sciences.

Sciences evolve.

Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories.

The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man will have over matter, a few hundred years from now. We may learn how to remove gravity from large masses, and float them over great distances. Agriculture will double its produce with less labor. All diseases will surely be cured... even old age. If only the moral sciences could be improved as well. Perhaps men would cease to be wolves to one another... and human beings could learn to be human.

We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.

History is the shank of the social sciences.

I was very good in all the maths and sciences.

There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

Sciences are being unified by the search for life in the universe.

Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least.

Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

I've always liked all the sciences like math, physics and biology

... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain regularity; but if one wants to go back to the source, one will find it nowhere, because it is everywhere; it is spread so much [as to be] over all the surface of the earth; it is the same if one wants to go back to the origin of the sciences, one will find only obscurity, vague ideas, vicious circles; and one loses oneself in the primitive ideas.

Drawing instruction is a training towards perception, exact observation and exact presentation not of the outward appearances of an object, but of its constructive elements, its lawful forces-tensions, which can be discovered in given objects and of the logical structures of same-education toward clear observation and clear rendering of the contexts, whereby surface phenomena are an introductory step towards the three-dimensional.

I think actors, at a certain point in their careers, decide they're either going to keep taking risks or take the exact same risk over and over again so that it's not a risk anymore. That's when I don't want to work with them. I think there are some actors who are just doing the exact same thing, and they will never shift from it.

Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a few paces ahead. Occasionally the fog lifts, an eminence is gained, and a wider stretch of territory can be surveyed-sometimes with startling results. A whole science may then seem to undergo a kaleidoscopic rearrangement, fragments of knowledge sometimes being found to fit together in a hitherto unsuspected manner. Sometimes the shock of readjustment may spread to other sciences; sometimes it may divert the whole current of human thought.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality.

Your body, which is bonding millions of molecules every second, depends on transformation. Breathing and digestion harness transformation. Food and air aren’t just shuffled about but, rather, undergo the exact chemical bonding needed to keep you alive. The sugar extracted from an orange travels to the brain and fuels a thought. The emergent property in this case is the newness of the thought; no molecules in the history of the universe ever combined to produce that exact thought.

I studied political science at the Ecole de Sciences Politiques in Paris.

Both economics and politics are false sciences.

Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.

Experience is the universal mother of sciences.

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

The great shift... is the movement away from the value-laden languages of... the "humanities," and toward the ostensibly value-neutral languages of the "sciences." This attempt to escape from, or to deny, valuation is... especially important in psychology... and the so-called social sciences. Indeed, one could go so far as to say that the specialized languages of these disciplines serve virtually no other purpose than to conceal valuation behind an ostensibly scientific and therefore nonvaluational semantic screen.

I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects disgusted me with them. When I began to study man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to him, and that in diving into them, I wandered farther from my real object than those who knew them not, and I forgave them for not having attended to these things. I expected then, however, that I should find some companions in the study of man, since it was so specifically a duty. I was in error. There are fewer students of man than of geometry.

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

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.