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 has been the absolute bedrock of technological and economic progress in the United States.
Science wasn’t a show-business talent, conducted in large halls and decided by audience applause.
They didn’t even understand the science they presumed to criticize.
Science is the noblest of the arts and men of science the most artistic of all artists.
There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.
Science will, in all probability, be increasingly impregnated by mysticism.
Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.