Science Quotes
Asimov, Jacob Bronowski, Einstein, Arthur Eddington and Carl Sagan lead the page. The most-sourced writer is Henri Poincaré, with several passages from Science and Hypothesis (1901) and The Value of Science (1905), including the one about doubting everything and believing everything being two equally convenient ways to avoid thinking.
Two entries are flagged. “Etymology is a science in which vowels signify nothing at all, and consonants very little” is credited to Voltaire as disputed, and the notes cite two scholarly articles on where the saying comes from. “Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences” is credited to Galileo and flagged misattributed.
Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.
The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world — and the most dangerous.
In science, just as in art and in life, only that which is true to culture is true to nature.
Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.
The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
No scientific discovery is named after its original inventor.
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.