Science Quotes

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"Consciousness emerges from the body's interaction with its environment."
Baruch Spinoza
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"Science is the knowledge of necessity"
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"To understand the properties of light is to understand much of the universe."
John Locke
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"Geometry will be the gate and the key of the sciences."
Thomas Hobbes
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"Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another."
Thomas Hobbes
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"All motion is either straight or circular."
Thomas Hobbes
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"All the sciences have a relation to human life"
David Hume
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"All our reasonings concerning matter of fact seem to be founded on the relation of Cause and Effect"
David Hume
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"Nature operates according to laws that reason can discover."
Immanuel Kant
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"Science seeks to explain the mechanisms of nature, but not its purpose."
Immanuel Kant
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"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."
Adam Smith
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"The chief cause of the great advancement of mathematics has been the invention of analysis."
Adam Smith
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"We cannot consider the whole extent of our knowledge without reckoning upon mathematics."
Adam Smith
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"Science is humanity's attempt to comprehend the rationality of nature."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"Science advances by negating previous understanding through new knowledge."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"The human body consists of many parts that are sensitive to external influences."
Baruch Spinoza
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"Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another."
Thomas Hobbes
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"By art and industry, men have made themselves masters of nature."
Thomas Hobbes
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"In geometry, which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind, men begin with settling the significations of their words."
Thomas Hobbes
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"Science teaches us to question and verify."
Toussaint L'Ouverture
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"The rise and progress of science is the index of the rise and progress of civilization."
John Locke
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"Science without philosophy is blind; philosophy without science is empty."
Immanuel Kant
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"Science seeks to understand the laws that govern reality."
Immanuel Kant
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"All its rules and maxims are founded on experience and observation."
David Hume
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"The most useful sciences are those that teach us how to order our lives and societies."
Baruch Spinoza
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"Geometry will be the principal and most useful of all the sciences."
Thomas Hobbes
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"To understand God's thoughts, we must study mathematics, for these are a sort of divine language by which He has written the universe."
Thomas Hobbes
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"Science serves humanity best when guided by wisdom."
José de San Martín
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"El conocimiento es el arma más poderosa contra la tiranía."
Benito Juárez
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"El conocimiento acumula poder en manos justas."
Benito Juárez