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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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Assay nothing without science, but confine your selves to those bounds, which Nature hath prescribed you. p. 70 (last sentence of the book)

Thomas Vaughan Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)

In science, it is not speed that is the most important. It is the dedication, the commitment, the interest and the will to know something and to understand it — these are the things that come first.

Eugene Wigner

In science we must all submit not to what seems to us attractive from one point of view or another, but to what represents an agreement between theory and experiment.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.

Rudolf Carnap The Unity of Science (1934)

Science treads in the same footsteps of our ancestors, answering to our longing to understand where we fit in as we look up to the sky.

Marcelo Gleiser

Science says if the annual per capita consumption of alcohol exceeds eight liters [2.1 gallons], the nation starts to degenerate genetically. The average consumption in Russia now amounts to 15 to 20 liters.

Gennady Zyuganov

Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.

Edward Teller Proceedings of the International Conference on Lasers '87 (1988)

O star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there,
To waft us home the message of despair?

Thomas Campbell The Pleasures of Hope (1799)

The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments, and a passionate unwillingness to do so.

Sam Harris

We are always influenced by the work that we do. Having worked in manufacturing you are always inspired by it, whether it’s the design that goes into products, the production, the science, the technology.

Gavin Williamson

No, I don't buy it because I don't believe in evolution. I don't believe in that type of so-called "science" [uses air quotes]. I don't believe in evolution, I believe in God.

Marjorie Taylor Greene

If the Church has sometimes been against science, the cause lies in its misreading of the Bible.

Jean Guitton

Science is not a form of black magic. A thousand blind alleys must often be explored before a right road is found; a thousand amateurs must have their fling before a Darwin or an Einstein comes along.

Laurence McKinley Gould

The origin of all science is in the desire to know causes; and the origin of all false science and imposture is in the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.

William Hazlitt

I think that God has revealed Himself to many at many times and in many places. Indeed, He continuously reveals Himself to man today : every new discovery of science is a further "revelation" of the order which God has built into His universe.

Warren Weaver

I was inspired to become an astronaut after watching the Apollo 11 moon landing as an eight-year-old kid. We need to get kids interested in space and in science and math in general.

Leroy Chiao Leroy Chiao (2021)

I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion.

Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.

Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

The way to advance the nation's prosperity and achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization, and substituting machines and power for human backs.

Charles Erwin Wilson Michigan Business Review (1949)

My father taught me that in scientific work even the most brilliant intelligence won't be useful if it won't be supported by a long, hard work.

Jerzy Vetulani

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