science Quotes

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.

For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre; the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet; while the other... ...

The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have... ...

Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.

If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a young one from itself. No instance of this worthy of any credit has been observed... ...

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.