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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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The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis — the most out of the least.

Mario Bunge

Science is the study of those things that can be reduced to the study of other things.

Gerald Weinberg

Science and future, that is a contradiction.

Helmut Schmidt

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

Rudolf Carnap Rudolf Carnap (1929)

In modern science, in fact, let alone modern systems theory, cause disappears wherever you have a very complex system of interrelated elements.

Walter F. Buckley Walter F. Buckley (1970)

The gift of professional maturity comes only to the psychologist who knows the history of his science.

Edwin Boring David Ballin Klein (1977)

I think science is best taught as a puzzle to be solved.

Steven Novella

Science is the study of those judgements concerning which universal agreement can be obtained.

Norman Robert Campbell

The product of mental labor — science — always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

Karl Marx

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

H. G. Wells The First Men in the Moon (1901)

The good thing about being in the BookWorld is that we aren’t hampered by anything as awkward as physical laws. The RealWorld must be hideously annoying to do science in.

Jasper Fforde One of Our Thursdays is Missing (2011)

You shouldn’t be looking for the secret to making people follow fads, you should be looking for the secret to making them think for themselves. Because that’s what science is all about.

Connie Willis Bellwether (1996)

Mystics understand the roots of the Tao but not its branches; scientists understand its branches but not its roots. Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science; but man needs both.

Fritjof Capra The Tao of Physics (1975)

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

Louis Pasteur Revue Scientifique (1871)

“Are you interested in science?”
“Of course I am. Who isn’t?”

Fredric Brown The Mind Thing (1961)

To an increasing number of practitioners, computer simulations rooted in mathematics represent a third way of doing science, alongside theory and experiment.

Ivars Peterson The Mathematical Tourist: New and Updated Snapshots of Modern Mathematics (1998)

Science follows evidence; political science follows opinion; religious science follows myth and is therefore no science at all.

Robert S. McElvaine Grand Theft Jesus: The Hijacking of Religion in America (2008)

Dogma doesn’t build better medical devices; good science does.

Eugenie Scott Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design Is Wrong for Our Schools (2006)

In short, science as such is in no way a guarantee of wisdom or humanity.

Ernesto Galli della Loggia

In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method to the social sciences and a solution of the problem of complete avoidance of war.

Edward Condon

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