Science Fact/history and Philosophy

Famous quotes containing the words science, fact, history and/or philosophy:

“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 (1623–1662)

“All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.”
—Helene Deutsch (1884–1982)

“The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.”
—Lytton Strachey (1880–1932)

“There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)