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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Thomas Hobbes
Science, Reality, Facts
1651 Leviathan, pt.1, ch.5.

The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

Thomas Hobbes
Knowledge, Science, Power
Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides, Homer (1839). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.7

By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have said at the beginning of the second chapter), and remembrance of the same; the other is called science or knowledge of the truth of propositions, and how things are called, and is derived from understanding.

Thomas Hobbes
Knowledge, Science, Two
Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.12

Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut esse intelligi non possit, nisi ab illis qui sunt scientia praediti.

Thomas Hobbes
Knowledge, Science, Power
Thomas Hobbes (1966). “Opera philosophica quae latine scripsit omnia: in unum corpusnunc primum collecta studio et labore Gulielmi Molesworth”

Whatsoever accidents or qualities our senses make us think there be in the world, they are not there, but are seemings and apparitions only. The things that really are in the world without us, are those motions by which these seemings are caused. And this is the great deception of sense, which also is by sense to be corrected. For as sense telleth me, when I see directly, that the colour seemeth to be in the object; so also sense telleth me, when I see by reflection, that colour is not in the object.

Thomas Hobbes
Science, Thinking, Reflection
"Elements of Law, Natural and Political".

The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby men register their Thoughts; recall them when they are past; and also declare them one to another for mutuall utility and conversation; without which, there had been amongst men, neither Commonwealth, nor Society, nor Contract, nor Peace, no more than amongst Lyons, Bears, and Wolves.

Thomas Hobbes
Science, Past, Men
Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.

Thomas Hobbes
Mother, School, Science
Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.627, eKitap Projesi

To conclude, The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; Reason is the pace; Encrease of Science, the way; and the Benefit of man-kind, the end.

Thomas Hobbes
Science, Men, Light
Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Annotated LEVIATHAN with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.38, Powell Publications, LLC

And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the significations of their words; which settling of significations, they call definitions, and place them in the beginning of their reckoning.

Thomas Hobbes
Science, Men, Definitions
Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.109

And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible rules, called Science; which very few have, and but in few things; as being not a native faculty, born within us; nor attained, (as Prudence,) while we look after somewhat else.

Thomas Hobbes
Art, Science, Skills
Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Annotated LEVIATHAN with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.117, Powell Publications, LLC

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