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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.

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When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.

William R. Alger

System engineering is the art and science of creating effective systems, using whole system, whole life principles.

Derek Hitchins Derek Hitchins (1995)

Indeed, what is magic but impossible science?

Michael Swanwick Stations of the Tide (1991)

The metaphysics that still dominates science and enthralls the minds of men is nothing but a metaphor, and a limited one.

Colin Murray Turbayne The Myth of Metaphor (1962)

All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.

William James

Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1991)

"Science affirms that ..." Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.

Simone Weil On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968)

Science has no prejudices — though scientists often do. Science is like figures: they do not lie themselves, but the men who figure are often the greatest liars in the world.

Elisha Gray Nature's Miracles (1900)

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

Robert Graves

Human life is not eternal, but science and knowledge cross the threshold of centuries.

Igor Kurchatov

In education it is better to inspire the heart with a noble sentiment than to teach the mind a truth of science.

Edward Brooks

Science is now in the process of destroying religious dogma. The dogma of the divine creation is recognized as absurd.

Benito Mussolini

Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

David Hilbert Axiomatic Thought (1918)

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

Edmund Hillary Wise Guys : Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men (2005)

There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.

James D. Watson Lifelines (1997)

One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.

William Stanley Jevons The Theory of Political Economy (1871)

You are not to disbelieve human science or think human reason invalid except when they venture outside their province.

Ernest Dimnet What we live by (1932)

In our time the science of Sufism is desolate.

Ali Hujwiri The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning, while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love: the lives of Lazarus Long; a novel (1973)

Science is not inevitable; this question is very fruitful indeed.

Edgar Zilsel

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