Sciences Quotes

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. (Peter Ustinov)
Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences. View quote
Galileo Galilei
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs. View quote
Denis Diderot
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
While all other Sciences have advanced, that of Government is at a stand; little better understood; little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. View quote
John Adams
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics. View quote
Aleister Crowley
The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. View quote
Francis Bacon
Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the fourth and the fifth, and with geometricians in the subject of vision; and in all other sciences many points, perhaps all, are common so far as the discussion of them is concerned. But the actual undertaking of works which are brought to perfection by the hand and its manipulation is the function of those who have been specially trained to deal with a single art. (Vitruvius)
The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences. View quote
Albrecht Dürer
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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. View quote
Carroll Quigley
The social sciences are usually concerned with groups of persons rather than individual persons. The behavior of individuals, being free, is unpredictable. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials. View quote
Avicenna
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences. View quote
Plato
One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly disco. View quote
Albert Einstein
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. View quote
Albert Einstein
In the penultimate decade of the twentieth century science is sufficiently advanced to resolve the puzzles that stymied scientists in the last century and demonstrate, without metaphysical speculation, the consistency of evolution in all realms of experience. It is now possible to advance a general evolution theory based on unitary and mutually consistent concepts derived from the empirical sciences. View quote
Ervin László
The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work. (Johannes V. Jensen)
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education. View quote
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences. View quote
Frederick Sanger
In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method to the social sciences and a solution of the problem of complete avoidance of war. View quote
Edward Condon
The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion. View quote
Friedrich Hayek