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the sciences
«Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.»
Author: Alfred L. Kroeber
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Anthropology
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anthropology, humanistic, humanities, sciences, the sciences
«He is better known for what he has promised to the sciences than for what he as actually done for them.»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
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better known, done for, promised, sciences, the sciences
«I say it to thee again, and doubt never the contrary, that if it were the custom to put the little maidens to the school, and they were made to learn the sciences as they do to the men-children, that they should learn as perfectly, and they should be»
Author: Christine de Pisan
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contrary, custom, Maidens, sciences, The school, the sciences
«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.»
Author: Jim Bishop
(Writer)
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Science
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archaeology, everyone else, peep, peeping, Peeping Tom, peeps, sandbox, sciences, the sandbox, the sciences, tom
«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.»
Author: Aleister Crowley
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Arts and Sciences, branch, comprehension, indubitably, physics, sciences, subtlest, the sciences
«If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
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Arts and Sciences, functions, Humble servant, in for, natural science, printing, sciences, shorthand, stand in, supplant, supplanted, supplanting, supplants, the sciences, The Servant
«If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
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Science,
Truth
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fortunes, principal, regard as, sciences, solving, succeeded, The Fortunes, the 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.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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Ethics,
Ignorance,
Physics,
Science
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affliction, console, physical science, sciences, the sciences
«I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
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incapable, man of science, sciences, the sciences