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 is too important not to be a part of a popular culture.
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive.
It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.
If religion and science get along so well, why are so many scientists nonbelievers?
“Blasphemy” and “heresy” are terms of religion, not science.
Science has a huge advantage over “other ways of knowing”: built-in methods of self-correction.
Religion has no warrant and no method for decreeing what is and what is not beyond science.
The direction in which science will move is set by the philosophic world view of the scientists.