Theoretical Sciences Quotes

“Science is a river with two sources, the practical source and the theoretical source.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“They asked for Plato's assistance. He told them: "You hated wisdom and ran away from geometry, therefore God has afflicted you a punishment, for wisdom and philosophical knowledge have a high rank with God." ... The plague was lifted and they ceased to defame the branches of theoretical knowledge.”
― Mulla Sadra, Breaking the Idols of Ignorance: Admonition of the Soi Disant Sufi

“For as whipp'd tops and bandied balls,
The learned hold, are animals;
So horses they affirm to be
Mere engines made by geometry”
― Samuel Butler, Hudibras