Natural Science Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Examination, Trends, Medical

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.

  Ronald Fisher

  Believe, Teaching, Men

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• Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.

  Johannes V. Jensen

  Determination, Book, Names

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Said to physicist John Bahcall. I don't believe in natural science.

  Kurt Gödel

  Believe, Belief, Natural

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• In the course of the history of natural science, it always happens that profound or true thoughts or true facts were always either distorted or flattened out. The danger, especially of distortion, is particularly great in the case of orgonomy. We must be scientific, we cannot be political in these matters. And I personally declare that I will be the first to fight with all my strength, with whatever I've got against such a distortion of our principles.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Truth, Fighting, Profound

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• The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a science for which this race created a new era.(...) Besides making laudatory mention of that which we owe to the natural science of the Arabs in both the terrestrial and celestial spheres, we must likewise allude to their contributions in separate paths of intellectual development to the general mass of mathematical science.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Powerful, Race, Intellectual

  "Cosmos". Book by H.G. Bohn, v2, p. 589,595, 1860.

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• [Kepler] had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful logical theory means nothing in natural science without comparison with the exactest experience. Without this philosophic attitude, his work would not have been possible.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Attitude, Philosophy

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• I don't believe in natural science.

  Kurt Gödel

  Believe, Math, Natural

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• There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe. There is human action.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Society, Events, Analysis

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Society, Fields, Events

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• Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.

  Albertus Magnus

  Doe, Causes, Natural

  "The Middle Ages". Book by Morris Bishop, p. 252, 1968.

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• I am particularly fond of [Emmanuel Mendes da Costa's] Natural History of Fossils because this treatise, more than any other work written in English, records a short episode expressing one of the grand false starts in the history of natural science and nothing can be quite so informative and instructive as a juicy mistake.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Mistake, Fossils, Emmanuel

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• The most vitally characteristic fact about mathematics is, in my opinion, its quite peculiar relationship to the natural sciences, or more generally, to any science which interprets experience on a higher than purely descriptive level.

  John von Neumann

  Levels, Facts, Peculiar

  John Von Neumann, F. Bródy, Tibor Vámos (1995). “The Neumann Compendium”, p.618, World Scientific

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• You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were never dreamed of before; yet, if you have not developed in the soul of the pupil strong habits of virtue which will sustain her in the struggle of life, you have not educated her, but only put in her hand a powerful instrument of self-destruction.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Faith, Strong, Powerful

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• The natural sciences are sometimes said to have no concern with values, nor to seek morality and goodness, and therefore belong to an inferior order of things. Counter-claims are made that they are the only living and dynamic studies... Both contentions are wrong. Language, Literature and Philosophy express, reflect and contemplate the world. But it is a world in which men will never be content to stay at rest, and so these disciplines cannot be cut off from the great searching into the nature of things without being deprived of life-blood.

  Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

  Philosophy, Cutting, Science

  Presidential Address to Classical Association, 1959.

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• Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course. Despite all deficiencies not only is the death-blow dealt here for the first time to 'teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is empirically explained.

  Karl Marx

  Struggle, Book, Science

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1942). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes”

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• Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.

  Bridget Riley

  Keys, Law, Enquiry

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• The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

  Justus von Liebig

  Philosophy, Science, Religion

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• I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Men, Groups

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Icarus; or, the Future of Science”, p.3, Lulu Press, Inc

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• To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

  Evelyn Fox Keller

  Science, Mortality, Claims

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• [T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy personal psychological needs... but lack the ideas or the means to contribute to the technical base.

  E. O. Wilson

  Mean, Civilization, Ideas

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• The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective behavior. But to realize this promise, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, need to match their institutional structures to today's intellectual challenges.

  Nicholas A. Christakis

  Understanding, Challenges, Intellectual

  "Let’s Shake Up the Social Sciences". www.nytimes.com. July 19, 2013.

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• In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only natural science but intellectual work of all kinds.

  Philip Johnson

  Scary, Intellectual, Doctrine

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• The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.

  Ruth Benedict

  Science, Events, Negative

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.385, Transaction Publishers

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• The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.

  Allan Bloom

  Men, Expectations, Unity

  Allan Bloom (1988). “Closing of the American Mind”, Simon & Schuster

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