The very possibility of the science of mathematics seems an insoluble contradiction.
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 and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.
It is not unscientific to make a guess, although many people who are not in science think it is.
They translate books of science and attribute authorship to their coreligionists.
Tesla has contributed more to electrical science than any man up to his time.
Myth does not set out to give lessons in natural science any more than in morals or sociology.
Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.
Cosmology is a science which has only a few observable facts to work with.
Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.