science Quotes

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

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

The physician heals, Nature makes well.

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker.

Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary... ...

In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is... ...

These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate... ...