Natural Philosophy Quotes (5)
As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition. This Analysis consists in making Experiments and Observations, and in drawing general Conclusions from them by Induction, and admitting of no Objections against the Conclusions, but such as are taken from Experiments, or other certain Truths. For Hypotheses are not to be regarded in experimental Philosophy.
Opticks, 2nd edition (1718), Book 3, Query 31, 380.
See also: | Analysis (39) | Conclusion (28) | Experiment (218) | Hypothesis (96) | Induction (9) | Investigation (28) | Mathematics (226) | Observation (147) | Truth (247)
Geology is intimately related to almost all the physical sciences, as is history to the moral. An historian should, if possible, be at once profoundly acquainted with ethics, politics, jurisprudence, the military art, theology; in a word, with all branches of knowledge, whereby any insight into human affairs, or into the moral and intellectual nature of man, can be obtained. It would be no less desirable that a geologist should be well versed in chemistry, natural philosophy, mineralogy, zoology, comparative anatomy, botany; in short, in every science relating to organic and inorganic nature. With these accomplishments the historian and geologist would rarely fail to draw correct and philosophical conclusions from the various monuments transmitted to them of former occurrences.
Principles of Geology (1830-3), Vol. 1, 2-3.
See also: | Anatomy (20) | Botany (18) | Chemistry (91) | Geology (114) | Historian (8) | Knowledge (341) | Mineralogy (3) | Zoology (5)
In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia … is truly but the beginning of a natural philosophy.
Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth (1827, 3rd. Ed., 1855), 46. Julius (13 Sep 1795, Valdagno, Italy - 3 Jan 1855, Hurstmonceux, Sussex, England) was also a clergyman. Although he initially pursued a law career, he took holy orders in 1826.
It is customary to connect Medicine with Botany, yet scientific treatment demands that we should consider each separately. For the fact is that in every art, theory must be disconnected and separated from practice, and the two must be dealt with singly and individually in their proper order before they are united. And for that reason, in order that Botany, which is, as it were, a special branch of Natural Philosophy [Physica], may form a unit by itself before it can be brought into connection with other sciences, it must be divided and unyoked from Medicine.
Methodi herbariae libri tres (1592), translated in Agnes Arber, Herbals: Their Origin and Evolution, 2nd edition (1938), 144.
See also: | Botany (18) | Divide (2) | Medicine (127) | Practice (6) | Theory (192) | Treatment (35) | Unit (8)
We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.
[Pointing out the increasing specialization of science during the century to explain the resistance to his ideas,]
[Pointing out the increasing specialization of science during the century to explain the resistance to his ideas,]
(1986) Quoted in Anthony L. Peratt, 'Dean of the Plasma Dissidents', Washington Times, supplement: The World and I (May 1988),192.
