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By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.

M. C. Escher

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Louis Pasteur

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

Sir Francis Bacon

By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.

Blaise Pascal

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

Freeman Dyson

It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.

Albert Einstein

RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.

Ambrose Bierce

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

Rupert Murdoch

We recognize if a certain college, like the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, gets a large influx of students, we need to help out, and we are.

Jerry Hogle

Most of the programs that other colleges and universities are putting in place are very specific programs to attract women, for example, into engineering and hard sciences.

Claire Van Ummersen

UPMC understood that we were going through a visioning process. They agreed to wait until it was complete to see if what we had planned for the health sciences center fit their mission.

Dan Klaich

The new Health Sciences Building will provide a central facility for all pharmacy instruction and research.

Robert Simmons

Accelerating the growth in life sciences is key to our strategy to becoming a faster-growing, more profitable, less cyclical company.

Charles O. Holliday

There are things that I want Schoolcraft to be well-known for and part of that effort is to have us to be well-known in the areas of the med or med-related sciences.

Conway Jeffress

Now, of course, people who are involved in Arts & Sciences Council are involved in other organizations. But, it cannot be part of the decision making process.

David Reid

It's a very good job hunting season. The average starting salary for accounting and finance majors is around $35,000, for business and management majors it's $36,000 and computer sciences majors top the charts at $46,000 average starting salaries.

Tim Mcdonough

Tupelo would obviously be desirable for manufacturing in the life sciences field.

Mike Randle

One of the projects we're working on right now is increasing the capacity for the Bay Area's community colleges to meet the needs of the Bay Area life sciences industry.

William Watson

State-of-the-art laboratories are essential in our quest to recruit internationally known biomedical scientists and is key to our staying competitive as an academic health sciences center.

Larry Cook

In addition, the local family and consumer sciences Extension agents can provide you with updated resources and fact sheets.

Dr. Mickey Bielamowicz

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

Karen Horney

Arts and sciences has been a horse of a different color. There are 20 million ways students can go, so how do you gather information from that set of students to help them make choices?

Jill Seymour

Many students from the social sciences have expressed a desire to learn the language because they know it will be useful in their field of work.

Mabel Illidge

Because hackers are makers rather than scientists, the right place to look for metaphors is not in the sciences, but among other kinds of makers.

Paul Graham

The truck hit the car in the driver's side door. (She was) extricated from the car and taken to Health Sciences Centre in unstable condition.

Bruce Meyers

Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.

Christopher Bond

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the "hard" sciences so brilliantly successful.

Herbert Simon

We're getting into several of the sciences that had not been delved into before.

Karen Wheeler

It's a slow process, but we try to add something new every year. This year it was the Native Americans and the aquatic science booth. We're moving more toward the arts and sciences in the future.

Cassandra Wilson

I think if you were seeking a name for the college of arts and sciences ... you really couldn't imagine a better name than the name of Thomas Harriot. There, you have this renaissance man, somebody who wouldn't have recognized the boundary between the arts and the sciences.

Robert Fox

We're hoping to focus on the recovery and rebuilding of the sciences we have. We have spent tens of millions of dollars in building capacity in research. The challenge is not to lose that as we focus on new opportunities. It's a huge challenge.

John Clements

I encourage their parents to take them to L.A., if possible. The state fair inspires many to pursue careers in math and the sciences.

John Brophy

They were apparently looking for some old guys. I've always been interested in tying the arts and sciences together.

Tom Turpin

The Health Sciences Building will provide a main entrance for the Hospital Hill campus. The main floor of the building will house student services including advising office, counseling and career centers, and a convenient café.

Robert Simmons

Today, science's most profound questions address some of the largest phenomena in the cosmos and some of the smallest. We may never fully answer some of these questions, but we'll advance our knowledge and society in the process of trying.

Donald Kennedy

I was torn between research in biological sciences and becoming a teacher.

Monica Luechtefeld

What people like us in the nutritional-sciences field try to get people to understand is, there are no quick fixes. Drastically reducing carbohydrates or eating grapefruits all day isn't going to work in the long run.

Barbara V. Howard

There have even been rumors that mathematics is used in economics (and in other social sciences) either for the deliberate purpose of mystification or to confer dignity upon common places as French was once used in diplomatic communications.

James Newman

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

John Calvin

But what's different about this project is we are pulling together experts from different fields, such as isotope chemistry, electrical engineering, earth and planetary sciences and geology to look at the water cycle from beginning to end.

Inez Fung

Analysis is starting to get done, so this really contributes to what are already strong fundamentals. When you have a catalyst like this it should reaffirm to people that this information does create demand across the board for life sciences products.

Todd Nelson

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.

John Von Neumann

He is better known for what he has promised to the sciences than for what he as actually done for them.

Antoine Lavoisier

He's really a renaissance man and a big supporter of the arts and sciences. He's an art collector, quite a unique man. Since the big gift in 1998, he has been supporting us on an annual basis.

Patricia Jones

The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.

Roger Bacon

We are honored to welcome these outstanding individuals to the Board, ... We look forward to combining their expertise and guidance to continue in our mission to perform outstanding basic research in the life-sciences and to provide the foundation of knowledge that is critical to medical progress.

John Reed

Since I've been here I've found more great programs such as the Business College, College of Arts and Sciences.

Stephen Bell

A lot of states are moving on this now. It's very competitive. ... Life sciences is just one of the industries that everybody wants at this point, and understandably so.

Patrick Kelly

We have existing strengths in engineering and life sciences that we would like to bring together.

Catherine Peters

It is important for us to do everything right and to do it well. We want to do this in a way that benefits students, and if we do this, the folks in Arts and Sciences will support our efforts.

Jonas Cox

We all wonder about the possibilities for health and longevity that new medical technologies offer. Our life sciences initiative will help the public think about the implications of advances in genetics and biotechnology and their potential to enhance our lives.

Ioannis Miaoulis

We want everyone to be aware of the breadth of research pertaining to the pork industry being done here at Iowa State. Faculty from the colleges of Agriculture, Engineering, Human Sciences and Veterinary Medicine are involved in doing research, and they work with our Extension folks on getting those results out to clients who need and want that information.

John Mabry

We're hoping that next year when they choose their major and minors, they'll choose the sciences.

Kee Koch

It is all about connecting the arts and the sciences.

Jill Thomas

There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields, ... Girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring to follow through with the sciences.

Sally Ride

The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.

Paul Erlich

These emission cuts must begin in the next 10 years if we want to pull this off with a minimum of economic impact. As the National Academy of Sciences has emphasized, delay makes the job much harder. A slow start will mean a crash finish.

David Doniger

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.

Jim Bishop

We are just trying to live within our budget. We've got 23 departments in the school [of liberal arts and sciences]. If I let every department overspend by $100,000, we'd be in trouble.

Ross Mackinnon

Billy Sparks is a great addition to our team. He brings experiences that will benefit the Health Sciences Center at a time when our mission is growing and we are implementing the recommendations that came out of our recent Health Care Summit.

Paul Roth

I used to be in arts and stuff. But I never was encouraged to...I was...aimed toward the sciences.

Jon Favreau

I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.

Levar Burton

After a lot of helpful conversation among faculty and students in the School of Health Sciences and with community people, we came to the conclusion that the first survey should be something basic and ask questions about access to healthcare, and we are specifically interested in adults ranging from 18-65 years old.

Gregg Kaufman

A new faculty member, Dr. Lynn Gregory, was hired to strengthen our new major in Public Communication housed in the Department of Community Development and Applied Economics. A new faculty member, Dr. Amy Trubek, was hired to strengthen our curriculum around sustainable food systems in the department of Nutrition and Food Sciences.

Rachel Johnson

We have access to some of the top professors in the world. The Edgerton Center [at MIT] and [Harvard's] Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences [DEAS] have gone above and beyond to make sure that we have everything that we need.

Kristina Haller

Even though the name Monsanto isn't new, the concept of a life sciences industry is, ... We hope to capture the essence of our role in this emerging industry in our new positioning.

Robert Shapiro

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

Roger Bacon

There's not too much intellectual conversation around the dinner table. So, I do miss the sciences, but I really enjoy what I'm doing right now.

Sarah Konrad

For many years students in the College have wanted to take computer science but not with the engineering focus -- they wanted to do additional majors like economics or psychology or something in the life sciences and the engineering degree didn't allow them to do both.

Thomas Horton

The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.

Ernest Rutherford

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

Eric Temple Bell

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences.

Eugene Wigner

The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't.

Ernest Rutherford