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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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In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.

Jerry Coyne

Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time by 100 years you may be ahead of your time by 10 at most.

Leó Szilárd

Once a scientific question is settled, it remains interesting and alive only if it draws attention to new questions; every conclusion is meant as a transition to a new beginning.

Adrienne von Speyr Lumina and New Lumina (1969)

If Jesus does come down out of the clouds like a superhero, Christianity will stand revealed as a science. That will be the science of Christianity.

Sam Harris

Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living.

Erwin Chargaff Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (1973)

Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.

Vera Rubin

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

Victor J. Stenger In The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason (2009)

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

Kim Stanley Robinson Red Mars (1992)

He calls it the university of the Real One, and it teaches only things that are known to be true, which means it is largely devoted to mathematics and sciences.

Sheri S. Tepper The Visitor (2002)

That logic, as a science, is susceptible of very wide applications is admitted; but it is equally certain that its ultimate forms and processes are mathematical.

George Boole An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854)

There is no science which teaches the harmonies of nature more clearly than mathematics.

Paul Carus Introduction to Magic Squares and Cubes (1908)

The world is but an assembly of present, past, and possible sensations; the affair of science is to analyze and co-ordinate them by separating their accidental from their constant relations.

Alfred Binet

Mystery for mystery science beats religion hollow. I can't open my mouth in my lecture-room without repeating ten times as many unintelligible formulas as ever Hazard is forced to do in his church.

Henry Adams Esther: A Novel (1884)

Effective managing therefore happens where art, craft, and science meet. But in a classroom of students without managerial experience, these have no place to meet — there is nothing to do.

Henry Mintzberg Managers Not MBAs (2005)

Science vs. Technology: We should know why things must act as they do, to make them act as we want them to.

Saul Gorn

Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.

Paul Samuelson

Science is... in the broadest sense of organized, objective knowledge.

Richard Hartshorne The Nature of Geography (1939)

We have depended on donor countries for scientific development for so long. It's time we commit more resources in our national budget to advance science and technology.

Bingu wa Mutharika Bingu wa Mutharika (2007)

But it would be anecdotal evidence only, undocumentable and, by definition, unrepeatable. Therefore, not science.

Nancy Kress Probability Moon (2000)

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor — but they have few followers now.

Arthur C. Clarke Childhood's End (1953)

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