Dialogue

 1 Phileb|   theoretical; and a dialectical science, which is higher still and
 2 Phileb|   infinity. With him the idea of science may be said to anticipate
 3 Phileb|        may be said to anticipate science; at a time when the sciences
 4 Phileb|        fruitful notion of modern science.~Plato describes with ludicrous
 5 Phileb|       Republic, not as a sublime science, coordinate with astronomy,
 6 Phileb|         become a purely abstract science, when separated from matter,
 7 Phileb|  expressed in the modern formula—science is art theoretical, art
 8 Phileb|          art theoretical, art is science practical. In the reason
 9 Phileb|          superiority of the pure science of number over the mixed
10 Phileb|          dialectic, which is the science of eternal Being, apprehended
11 Phileb|         man is dialectic, or the science of being, which will forget
12 Phileb|   attaining. And is not this the science which has a firmer grasp
13 Phileb|         between pure and applied science for the first time has a
14 Phileb|        whole, or made a separate science or system. Many thinkers
15 Phileb|        by Plato (to which modern science has returned in Mill and
16 Phileb|        Ask me whether wisdom and science and mind, and those other
17 Phileb|        no difference between one science and another;—would not the
18 Phileb|        among the votaries of the science; and there may be reasonably
19 Phileb| dialectic?~SOCRATES: Clearly the science which has to do with all
20 Phileb|          able to say whether the science of which I have been speaking
21 Phileb|      hardly think that any other science or art has a firmer grasp
22 Phileb|          SOCRATES: Then mind and science when employed about such