#sciences

It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

#clear #different #experiments #made #method

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#consciences #doing #even #i #i think

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#greater #impediment #place #progress #quickly

I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943. ↗

— Simon van der Meer

#final #gymnasium #hague #i #passed

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#basic elements #cry #educated #education #elements

That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans-and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#food #food-science #nutrition #social-sciences #diet

You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations. ↗

— Stephen Wolfram

#been #describe #dominated #equations #exact

Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics. ↗

— Amy Carter

#leaning #like #physics #probably #sciences

The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore selfishness must be the seed. ↗

— M.D. Birmingham

#family #handicapped #health-and-fitness #inspirational #mind

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#amazing #arts #create #enough #food