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But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods. -- Ivan Pavlov
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science. -- Karl Marx
I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule. -- Michael Polanyi
The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science. -- Phillip E. Johnson
Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects. -- Wilhelm Wundt
The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general. -- Jiang Zemin
The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began. -- Phillip E. Johnson
In the fall of 1961, I went up to Clare College Cambridge to read Natural Sciences, with the intention of becoming a biochemist in the end. -- Tim Hunt
As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention. -- James Joseph Sylvester
I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences. -- Ronald Fisher
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. -- William Blake
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. -- Alan Perlis
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion. -- Stephen Hawking
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves -- Werner Heisenberg
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves. -- Werner Heisenberg
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
There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called mathematics, and the natural sciences. -- Robert Watson-Watt
The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you. -- Werner Heisenberg
Natural science physics contains in itself synthetical judgments a priori, as principles. ... Space then is a necessary representation a priori, which serves for the foundation of all external intuitions. -- Immanuel Kant
Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne. -- Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science. -- James Henry Breasted
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. -- Blaise Pascal
But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain. -- Albert Einstein
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? -- Richard P. Feynman
I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature than most of us. These were great naturalists; people I would admire for their knowledge of natural science given the time. -- Greg Graffin
All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon. -- Roger Bacon
Both religion and natural science require a belief in God for their activities, to the former He is the starting point, and to the latter the goal of every thought process. To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view. -- Max Planck
I am well aware of the fact that the human race has known about the existence of a universal energy related to life for many ages. However, the basic task of natural science consisted of making this energy usable. This is the sole difference between my work and all preceding knowledge. -- Wilhelm Reich
The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by mathematical formulas. Only money economy has filled the days of so many people with weighing, calculating, with numerical determinations, with a reduction of qualitative values to quantitative ones. -- Georg Simmel
You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were never dreamed of before; yet, if you have not developed in the soul of the pupil strong habits of virtue which will sustain her in the struggle of life, you have not educated her, but only put in her hand a powerful instrument of self-destruction. -- Rose Philippine Duchesne
I don't believe in natural science. -- Kurt GÃ¶del
Science is the natural ally of religion. -- Theodore Parker
Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws. -- Marshall McLuhan
Said to physicist John Bahcall. I don't believe in natural science. -- Kurt GÃ¶del
Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science. -- Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation. -- Carl Linnaeus
I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one. -- William James
Science often progresses by carving out new distinctions that refine the fuzzy categories of natural language. -- Stanislas Dehaene
I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science. -- Paul Nurse
Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. -- Albert Einstein
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail. -- Rudy Rucker
Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena. -- Albertus Magnus
I'll tell you something about true love. There's no science to it. It's as natural as the sky. -- Lauren DeStefano
Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth. -- Theodore J. Hoover
Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future. -- Hugo Gernsback
All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces. -- Hermann von Helmholtz
Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science. -- Bridget Riley
I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone. -- Hippocrates
I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present. -- Immanuel Kant
Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation. -- Stephen Hawking
Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment. -- Theodosius Dobzhansky
The Goal of Science is understanding lawful relations among natural phenomena. Religion is a way of life within a larger framework of meaning. -- Ian Barbour
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
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
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
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 expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe. -- Allan Bloom
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
Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena. -- Louis Pasteur
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
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
Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap. -- Vladimir Arnold
Magic could not be measured and explained in scientific terms, for magic grew through destroying the very natural principles that made science as people knew it impossible. -- Ilona Andrews
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
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 diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so often called themselves reason and science. -- Marilynne Robinson
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur. -- Rudy Rucker
Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in. -- Sally Ride
Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne. -- Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge. -- C. V. Raman
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
Science operates in the natural, not the supernatural. In fact, I go so far as to state that there is no such thing as the supernatural or the paranormal. -- Michael Shermer
If it is impossible to judge merit and guilt in the field of natural science, then it is not possible in any field, and historical research becomes an idle, empty activity. -- Justus von Liebig
In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only natural science but intellectual work of all kinds. -- Philip Johnson
To understand the magic way of thinking you have to know non-magic thinking. If you see that clearly, you will see how many magic thoughts are necessary elements even of natural science today. -- Asger Jorn

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