Natural Science Quotes
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Natural Science Quotes & Sayings
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I'm very suspicious of the idea of a "final theory" in natural science, and the thought of a complete system of ethical rules seems even more dubious.
— Philip Kitcher
It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.
— Charles Darwin
A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.
— Jacques Monod
When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.
— Albert Hofmann
The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
— Francis Bacon
Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.
— Albertus Magnus
Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.
— Edward M. Lerner
Structure of creation. Nature herself is maya; natural science must perforce
— Paramahansa Yogananda
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
— Ronald A. Fisher
Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.
— Ernst W. Mayr
There is no separate supernatural realm: all phenomena are part of one natural process of evolution.
— Julian Huxley
Similar probabilistic models have become central to economics, sociology, psychology, political science and the other social and natural sciences.
— Yuval Noah Harari
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
— Charles Darwin
Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.
— Stephen Hawking
I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.
— Simon Winchester
I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.
— Immanuel Kant
natural language will always remain the basic interpretation of, and reservoir for, the development of the artificial formalized languages of science.
— Doris Bradbury
Education is only second to nature.
— Horace Bushnell
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
— Werner Heisenberg
And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting - In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural. — Alberto Caeiro
The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not going to make any progress.
— Michael E. DeBakey
A deep understanding of Darwinism teaches us to be wary of the easy assumption that design is the only alternative to chance
— Richard Dawkins
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.
— Konrad Lorenz
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
— Francis Bacon
As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.
— Charles Scott Sherrington
In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
The main purpose of a significance test is to inhibit the natural enthusiasm of the investigator.
— Frederick Mosteller
There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.
— J. Arthur Thomson
Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.
— Michael Shermer
Natural Sciences are all about fascinating causality.
— Abhijit Naskar
Science is the natural ally of religion.
— Theodore Parker
Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.
— Marshall McLuhan
Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.
— Albert Einstein
It is still open to question whether psychology is a natural science, or whether it can be regarded as a science at all.
— Ivan Pavlov
Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject.
— Harold Morowitz
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.
— Theodore J. Hoover
We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.
— Carl Linnaeus
All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.
— Hermann Von Helmholtz
Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.
— Thomas Bartholin
Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature ... Observation is considered the key to natural science.
— Bridget Riley
Philosophy limits the disputable sphere of natural science.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.
— Hugo Gernsback
There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.
— Richard Dawkins
But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.
— Ivan Pavlov
Mathematics is not a science from our point of view, in the sense that it is not a natural science. The test of its validity is not experiment.
— Richard Feynman
When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
I don't believe in natural science.
— Kurt Godel
I'll tell you something about true love. There's no science to it. It's as natural as the sky.
— Lauren DeStefano
I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.
— Paul Nurse
Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.
— Michael Crichton
Science often progresses by carving out new distinctions that refine the fuzzy categories of natural language.
— Stanislas Dehaene
Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
— Isaac Newton
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
— Charles Darwin
Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it.
— Francis Collins
The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.
— Justus Von Liebig
Human was the music, natural was the static.
— John Updike
natural science is likely to be soon exhausted. Passing by many particulars of the discipline
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
— Rudy Rucker
In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.
— Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
— Isaac Newton
The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.
— Gregory Bateson
Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to us.
— Edgar Douglas Adrian
I'll tell you something about love. It's no science to it. I'ts natural as the sky
— Lauren DeStefano
Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.
— Carl Friedrich Von Weizsacker
Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history ... You spoil both.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.
— Benjamin Disraeli