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.
It is the nature of science that answers automatically pose new and more subtle questions.
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
The best antidote for pseudoscience, I firmly believe, is science.
I wished, by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her to become one.
Useful quantification is so often the key to fruitful science.
‘In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.’
Precision, accuracy and pondering in wisdom and sciences, will nourish and develop a person's brain.