Physical Sciences

Famous quotes containing the words physical sciences, physical and/or sciences:

“The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

“The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)

“The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)