Top 890 Sciences Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

History is the shank of the social sciences.

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.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from the natural sciences, but that the same scientific methods were applicable in both areas, and, indeed, that no very useful work could be done in either area except by scientific methods.

Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences.

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.

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

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.

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

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

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

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

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

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

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

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

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

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

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.

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.

... 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.

For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves were of religious origin. There is no religion that is not a cosmology at the same time that it is a speculation upon divine things. If philosophy and the sciences were born of religion, it is because religion began by taking the place of the sciences and philosophy.

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

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

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.

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

I was very good in all the maths and sciences.

The Hindus progressed in the subjective sciences.

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

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

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.

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

Interest in the pseudo-sciences has become extraordinary.

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

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

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

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

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

I'm the only tenured black faculty in the sciences at Columbia, in the middle of Harlem.

Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.

There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other. It's a first approximation, but one that is real. In the former, the factors of integrity tend to dominate more over the factors of ideology. It's not that scientists are more honest people. It's just that nature is a harsh taskmaster. You can lie or distort the story of the French Revolution as long as you like, and nothing will happen. Propose a false theory in chemistry, and it'll be refuted tomorrow.

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.

Both economics and politics are false sciences.

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

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

Astrology, the noblest of sciences.

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

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

The government's duty is to support basic sciences.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

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

I loved everything. I loved sciences and I loved humanities. But ultimately, I felt that in the humanities, you know, you're writing about things that already exist. But in the sciences, you're discovering things that no one has known before. Ultimately I chose psychology because it seemed to combine science with things that I liked to think about.

Sciences evolve.

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

Experience is the universal mother of sciences.

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