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The Handmaiden of the Sciences. -- Eric Temple Bell
Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not. -- Laurence Sterne
There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center. -- Ken Thompson
The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place. -- Claude Bissell
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs. -- Isaac Barrow
The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow. -- Paul R. Ehrlich
If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population. -- Ricky Gervais
The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen. -- Fritz Haber
So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion. -- Stephen Hawking
The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement. -- Nassau William Senior
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
The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God . -- Albert Pike
In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the elite of American scientists, said they believed in a personal god. -- Victor J. Stenger
The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white. -- David Letterman
I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don't. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind. -- George Washington
Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the increase is due in large part to human activity. -- George W. Bush
This line of research continued when I went, and brought my research group with me, to the new University of California, Irvine campus in 1966 to become the founding Dean of the School of Physical Sciences. -- Frederick Reines
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
I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean. -- I. King Jordan
It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to extend this more perfect Species of Knowledge beyond these Bounds are mere Sophistry and Illusion. -- David Hume
I was invited to join the newly established Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was able to establish a small research group in organic chemistry, housed in temporary laboratories of an industrial research institute. -- George Andrew Olah
The present is an age of talkers, and not doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past achievements. -- William Hazlitt
Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience... they are both a part of us and a manifestation of the same thing... the arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity -- Mae Jemison
In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge. -- Sydney Brenner
The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement. -- William Hazlitt
In the evening, since I have a lot of friends in theater, we might take in a Deaf West production in North Hollywood, or, since I'm a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, they have screenings that are really great. -- Tim DeKay
In 1989, I was awarded the Von Neumann Prize in Operations Research Theory by the Operations Research Society of America and The Institute of Management Sciences. They cited my works in the areas of portfolio theory, sparse matrix techniques and the SIMSCRIPT programming language. -- Harry Markowitz
There is another domain that we consider relevant and having good prospects - marine biology. For many years this region [Russian Far East] has been home for one of the leading institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Marine Biology. -- Vladimir Putin
It is a wonderful and unexpected honor to receive the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Receiving this prize with Joseph Stiglitz and George Akerlof, whose work I have learned from and admired, makes it even more gratifying. -- Michael Spence
Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince would make War or Peace, nor any General fight in Battle, in short, no important affair was undertaken without first consulting an Astrologer. -- Benjamin Franklin
I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track. -- Pieter Zeeman
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. -- Albert Einstein
I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences. -- Ian Goldin
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education. -- Estelle Morris
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist. -- Grant Achatz
The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution. -- Daniel D. Palmer
In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives. -- Rumi
Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men. -- Karen Horney
My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. -- John Adams
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences. -- Freeman Dyson
Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been. -- Jim Bishop
The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat. -- Malcolm X
The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. -- Peter Ustinov
Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics. -- Aleister Crowley
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information. -- Irvine Welsh
The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity. -- Mae Jemison
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
The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist. -- Erwin Schrodinger
For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life. -- Derek Bok
The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics - greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else. -- Noam Chomsky
Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him. -- Pope Benedict XVI
It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either. -- Kurt Vonnegut
What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history. -- Barney Frank
Astrology, the noblest of sciences. -- Dante Alighieri
Experience is the universal mother of sciences. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people. -- Edmund Husserl
The Hindus progressed in the subjective sciences. -- Swami Vivekananda
Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences. -- Edmond de Goncourt
Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences. -- Karl Marx
Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences. -- Plato
Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences. -- Thomas Jefferson
History is the shank of the social sciences. -- C. Wright Mills
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences. -- Plato
Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics. -- Amy Carter
Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences. -- Galileo Galilei
The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity. -- Mae Jemison
The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue. -- Frances Wright
I was very good in all the maths and sciences. -- Tamara Tunie
... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences. -- Roger Bacon
The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences. -- Thomas Bernhard
No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible. -- Isaac Newton
I've always liked all the sciences like math, physics and biology -- Sigrid Agren
I've always liked all the sciences, like math, physics and biology. -- Sigrid Agren
Physics is the most fundamental, and least significant, of the sciences. -- Ken Wilber
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education. -- Estelle Morris
When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality. -- Paul Goodman
Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components. -- Thomas Aquinas
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs. -- Denis Diderot
Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least. -- Ken MacLeod
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. -- Louis Pasteur
Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot. -- Jonathan Swift
Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth. -- Alexandre Dumas
Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
One man alone had really known the sciences, namely, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln. -- Roger Bacon
Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences. -- Timothy Leary
I have never suggested any principled difference between the natural and social sciences. -- Noam Chomsky
Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary. -- Jimenez Lai
I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue. -- Voltaire
Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. -- Basmah bint Saud
While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a childs imagination. -- Kevin Spacey
The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't. -- Ernest Rutherford
It's in everyone's best interest to help close the gender gap in the sciences. -- Sarah Brightman
Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories. -- Cornelius Lanczos
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. -- John Calvin
Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics. -- David Hume
The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Look deeply into life, and study it as diligently as the other arts and sciences. -- Robert Schumann
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities -- Alfred L. Kroeber
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. -- Alfred L. Kroeber
If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance. -- James P. Gorman
All the mathematical sciences are founded on the relations between physical laws and laws of numbers. -- James Clerk Maxwell
Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture. -- Steven Pinker
We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences. -- John Powell
Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world. -- Leonardo da Vinci
It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language. -- David Chalmers
The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years. -- Andrew Dickson White
Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible." -- Peter D. Mitchell
Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible. -- Peter D. Mitchell
I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943. -- Simon van der Meer
To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness. -- Ovid

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