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“All the sciences are connected by such a labyrinth of interrelations that the construction of a really satisfactory classification of them appears to be an insuperable task” (G.J. Mivart)
“It is fair to say that, in general, no problems have been exhausted; instead, men have been exhausted by the problems. … there are no small problems. Problems that appear small are large problems that have not been understood” (Santiago Ramón y Cajal)
“Whether all crows are black...I have no expectation of any advantage to philosophy from discussions of this kind” (W. Whewell)
“No one should expect great progress in the sciences (especially in their practical part) unless natural philosophy is extended to the particular sciences, and the particular sciences in turn brought back to natural philosophy” (F. Bacon)