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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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I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

Marie Curie Madame Curie : A Biography (1937)

My moral heritage is science and reason.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Kemalist Devrim ve İdeolojisi (1980)

I think that for science fiction, fantasy, and even horror to some extent, the differences are skin-deep.

George R. R. Martin

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

Warren Weaver

Philosophy, as I understand the word, is a positive theoretical science, and a science in an early stage of development.

Charles Sanders Peirce Pragmatism and Pragmaticism (1903)

The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had long seemed unlike.

Jacob Bronowski The God Particle (1993)

Science is not a special sense. It is as wide as the literal meaning of its name: knowledge.

Jacob Bronowski The Common Sense of Science (1951)

A religion, which is not able or no more able to raise to the height of acquired science, is a dead religion.

Leopold Zunz

Magic words and incantations are as fatal to our science as they are to any other.

Benjamin N. Cardozo The Growth of the Law (1924)

Psychohistory, as a science, will always be problem-centered, while history will always remain period-centered. They are simply two different tasks.

Lloyd deMause Foundations of Psychohistory (1982)

History of science played a very important role for me.

Georges Charpak

But science does correct itself and that's the reason why science is such a glorious thing for our species.

Nigel Calder

Nay, as they increased in science and politeness, they ran into more abundant and extravagant idolatries.

William Carey An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians (1792)

The Dharma is indeed a philosophy, science of the inner mind, essence of mandkind as well as the best remedy for the promotion of world peace.

Jun Hong Lu Hongkong (2014)

To will what God doth will, that is the only science
That gives us any rest.

François de Malherbe

No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.

Albert Einstein

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

George Bernard Shaw Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

"Every beginning is difficult" holds in every science.

Karl Marx Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)

It is, of course, quite true that there is a region in which science and religion do not conflict. That is the region of the unknowable.

H. L. Mencken

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