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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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At its birth eugenics was not a politicised science; it was a science-ised political creed.

Matt Ridley Genome (1999)

Knowledge, action, and actor are declared in the science of the gunas to be of three kinds only, according to distinctions of gunas; hear them also duly.

Baba Hari Dass Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Ch. XIII-XVIII (2015)

The word truth can not be used outside of science without a misuse of terms.

Marcellin Berthelot

Our aesthetic judgment demands harmony between the representation, and the represented and in this sense science is often more artistic than modern art.

Karl Pearson The Grammar of Science (1900)

The ignorance of science means the enforced ignorance of mankind.

Karl Pearson The Grammar of Science (1900)

Literametrics' may become to philology, what 'Biometrics' has already become to the biological sciences.

Robert Edouard Moritz

At the same time (i. e., 1994), the Republican party continued to define itself in adulation of Reagan and in opposition to mainstream science.

Chris Mooney Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future (2009)

The university is proposing four new programmes in the Faculty of Management Sciences, apart from the five existing programmes.

Fatima Batul Mukhtar

My childhood curiosity is the key to my remarkable achievements and my passion for science.

Francisca Nneka Okeke

Students today want to have an impact in the world, to take science a step further and create usable solutions for society.

Estella Atekwana

The science of calculations with unknowns is the source of the science of calculations with knowns.

Bhāskara I

"You are already living in a world that would have seemed to be the stuff of science fiction just a few short years ago."

Jim Carroll

Nothing is deader than yesterday's science-fiction.

Arthur C. Clarke

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

Bill Gates

It’s so hard to balance in our minds the knowledge that ‘the world’ is mundanely ‘a planet.’ The former is so holy; the latter merely a science project.

Douglas Coupland

The sciences may be more ancient in India than in Egypt.

Denis Diderot

Cosmology is peculiar among the sciences for it is both the oldest and the youngest.

Gerald James Whitrow Theories of the Universe (1958)

There is more to a science fiction story than the science it contains. There is also the story.

Isaac Asimov Robot Dreams (1986)

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

Ray Bradbury The Circus of Dr. Lao Introduction (1956)

The man in the street is always making this demand for concrete explanation of the things referred to in science; but of necessity he must be disappointed.

Arthur Eddington The Nature of the Physical World (1928)

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