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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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The integrity of science is anchored in the willingness of scientists to test their ideas and results in direct confrontation with their scientific peers.

Robert L. Park Voodoo Science (2000)

Although science is no doubt the Jehovah of the modern world, there is considerable doubt about the glory of its handiwork.

Herbert J. Muller Science and Criticism (1943)

One of the troubles with the world is that so few laymen take an interest in science.

Randall Garrett Lord Darcy (1964)

Science fiction is that branch of literature that deals with human responses to changes in the level of science and technology.

Isaac Asimov

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

Margaret Wheatley

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

Mary Shelley

In aristocratic societies, enjoyments of the mind are particularly demanded of the sciences; in democratic, those of the body.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It is a truism that success in science comes to the individuals who ask the right questions.

John Polanyi

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

Joanna Russ The Image of Women in Science Fiction (1970)

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband (1895)

But science is one of the very few human activities — perhaps the only one — in which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected.

Karl Popper Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963)

How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection.

Isaac Asimov The Roving Mind (1983)

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.

Richard Dawkins Unweaving the Rainbow (1998)

Without faith a man can do nothing. But faith can stifle all science.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel Journal Intime (1882)

Human reason is the only saviour we have... We need more education, not less; more science, not less; more hope for the future, and more confidence in it.

A. J. P. Taylor

The progress in science has been anything but uniform in time and place.

John Desmond Bernal Science in History (1954)

And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.

Richard Matheson I Am Legend (1954)

Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments.

Thomas Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)

Origami helps in the study of mathematics and science in many ways. … Using origami anyone can become a scientific experimenter with no fuss.

Martin David Kruskal

But is the anatomy of man not a more painful science still?

Adolphe Quetelet A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)

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