Thomas Aquinas Quotes About Science

• Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause, or when the cause of the particular effect is one that exceeds his power of understanding. Hence, wonder is a cause of pleasure insofar as there is annexed the hope of attaining understanding of that which one wants to know. ... For desire is especially aroused by the awareness of ignorance, and consequently a man takes the greatest pleasure in those things which he discovers for himself or learns from the ground up.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Ignorancia, Conocimiento, Ciencia

• No es posible ignorar el fin de las cosas si conocemos su principio.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Ciencia, Ignorante, Fines

  Thomas Aquinas (1997). “Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas: Volume One”, p.952, Hackett Publishing

• Debe entenderse que la materia primera, y también la forma, no se genera ni se corrompe, porque toda generación es de algo a algo. Ahora bien, aquello de lo que procede la generación es la materia, y aquello a lo que procede es la forma. De modo que, si se generara la materia o la forma, habría una materia para la materia y una forma para la forma, sin fin. Por lo tanto, sólo hay generación de lo compuesto, propiamente dicho.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Ciencia, Seria, Generaciones

  Joseph Bobik, Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1998). “Aquinas on matter and form and the elements: a translation and interpretation of the De principiis naturae and the De mixtione elementorum of St. Thomas Aquinas”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

• For it is necessary in every practical science to proceed in a composite (i.e. deductive) manner. On the contrary in speculative science, it is necessary to proceed in an analytical manner by breaking down the complex into elementary principles.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Science, Scientific Method, Principles

  Saint Thomas Aquinas (1993). “Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics”, St. Augustine's Press

• Las ciencias prácticas proceden construyendo; la ciencia teórica resolviendo en componentes.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Science, Building Up, Statistics

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1960). “St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts”

• Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Filosofía, Conocimiento, Ciencia

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