Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Science, Men, Thinking

• When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Children, Teaching, Science

• A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Education, Science, Mind

• Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Art, Nature, Science

• There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Science, Philosopher, Absurd

• The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Food, Science, Men

  "De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (On the ends of good and evil)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book V: Liber Quintus, Chapter 19), 45 BC.

• Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Writing, Learning, Science

• No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Stars, Science, Feet

• Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Science, Men, Genius

• Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Time, Nature, Science

• No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Science, Understanding, Speak

• Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Children, Knowledge, Science

• Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mother, Art, Philosophy

• Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Success, Science, Perfection

• The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Passion, Science

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