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“Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which theorems-general and specific statements-can be deduced from the starting assumptions. It is, perhaps, the purest and most rigorous of intellectual activities, and is often thought of as queen of the sciences.”

“Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears the watchword "scientific objectivity" and of emerging at another door which looks out upon a variety of projects for changing, renovating, or revolutionizing society. In consequence, we feel the need of a more explicit account of how the student of society passes from facts to values or statements of policy.”

Source: In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963

“I like paper statements rather than relying on computers. I feel more in control if my account details and transactions are broken down on paper.”

Ifs Feels Broken Paper Computer Accounts Details Statements Transactions Broken Down

Author:Geoff Capes

“If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.”

Ifs Men Want Accounts Bases Statements Distress Tested Physiognomy

Book:Four Treatises Together with Selected Writings

Source: Four Treatises Together with Selected Writings

“Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of that power. When I look at the universe and all the ways the universe wants to kill us, I find it hard to reconcile that with statements of beneficence.”

Way Want Looks Hard Science Universe Religious Higher Accounts Regard Statements Benevolence Reconcile Higher Power Beneficence

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And our guesses are guided by the unscientific, the metaphysical (though biologically explicable) faith in laws, in regularities which we can uncover-discover. Like Bacon, we might describe our own contemporary science-'the method of reasoning which men now ordinarily apply to nature'-as consisting of 'anticipations, rash and premature' and as 'prejudices'.”

Men States Might Law Science Certain Nature Accounts Prejudice Method Statements Contemporary Reasoning Biology Anticipation Metaphysical In-laws Premature Regularity Finality

Author:Karl Popper

“All science is full of statements where you put your best face on your ignorance, where you say: ... we know awfully little about this, but more or less irrespective of the stuff we don't know about, we can make certain useful deductions.”

Knows Littles Faces Science Certain Stuff Knowledge Ignorance Accounts Statements Ignorant Deductions

Author:Hermann Bondi

“No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the strife may be, and sometimes must be, sharp. But must it even then be personal? Does it help science to attack the man as well as the statement? On the contrary, has not science the noble privilege of carrying on its controversies without personal quarrels?”

Men Wells May Doe Sometimes Helping Science Doubt He Man Accounts Privilege Noble Contrary Statements Compromise No Doubt Strife Controversy Quarrels Carrying On

Author:Rudolf Virchow

“Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.”

Science Direct Accounts Statements Controlled Scientific Method Verification

Book:The Unity of Science

Source: The Unity of Science

“We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions. The complexity and diversity of all the phenomena of modern life, the great possibilities and dangers linked with the scientific-technical revolution and with a number of social tendencies demand precisely such an approach, as has been acknowledged in a number of official statements.”

Source: Progress, coexistence, and intellectual freedom

“Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only one end in view: to show it off, to put into our accounts to entertain others with it, as though it were merely counters, useful for totting up and producing statements, but having no other use or currency. 'Apud alios loqui didicerunt, non ipsi secum' [They have learned how to talk with others, not with themselves]”

Littles Ends Use Shows Hands Views Words Of Wisdom Accounts Educational Statements Feds Currency Pupils

Book:The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne