Skip to content

The science of fools with long memories.

— James Planché Misattributed

Another quote →

Source, in full

Description of heraldry. Quoted by Planché in The Pursuivant of Arms; or, Heraldry Founded upon Facts (London: W. M. Wright, 1852) p. 3. Misattributed to Planché in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) p. 692. Sometimes attributed to Voltaire

Topics

Science

You may also like

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

Freeman Dyson Infinite in All Directions (1988)

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Henri Poincaré Science and Hypothesis (1901)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: James Planché (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.