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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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Natural science is the attempt to comprehend nature by precise concepts.

Bernhard Riemann Gesammelte Mathematische Werke (1876)

I invest in people — be it politics or science. It's what I do.

Jeffrey Epstein

Arithmetic is the science of the Evaluation of Functions, Algebra is the science of the Transformation of Functions.

George Holmes Howison

The torch that the Turkish nation holds in her hand and in her mind, while marching on the road of progress and civilisation, is positive sciences.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

An exact science is one that admits loss.

Genesis P-Orridge

The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.

Joseph Silk

The wealthy obtain in Paris ready-made wit and science—formulated opinions which save them the need of having wit, science, or opinion of their own.

Honoré de Balzac The Girl with the Golden Eyes (1833)

The wars fanned the wings of science, and science brought to mankind a thousand blessings, a thousand problems and a thousand perils.

Winston Churchill

I consider one of the most important duties of any scientist the teaching of science to students and to the general public.

Isaac Asimov

Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does.

Isaac Asimov Robot Dreams (1986)

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

John Polanyi

Any opposition not based on rationalism or science or experience will one day or other, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies.

Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

Alan Kay

Science, all by itself, has no moral dimension. The same poison-containing drug which cures when taken in small doses, may kill when taken in excess.

Wernher von Braun Responsible Scientific Investigation and Application (1976)

Science is not a monolithic body of doctrine. Science is a culture, constantly growing and changing.

Freeman Dyson Infinite in All Directions (1988)

It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.

Willard van Orman Quine

The frank realization that physical science is concerned with a world of shadows is one of the most significant of recent advances.

Arthur Eddington

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

Ursula K. Le Guin Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989)

Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place- science leads you to killing people.

Ben Stein

The ordinary citizen today assumes that science knows what makes the community clock tick; the scientist is equally sure that he does not.

Aldo Leopold

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