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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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Faith is indeed one of the miracles of human nature which science is as ready to accept as it is to study its marvellous effects.

William Osler The Faith that Heals (1910)

Science is not about status quo. It’s about revolution.

Leon M. Lederman

I'll break the spell or the science of her singing yet. As the only man left it devolves on me to do it.

R. A. Lafferty Space Chantey (1968)

Art is not science. Even when art is about science, it is still art. There cannot be consensus, in the sense that science strives for meaningful consensus.

Caitlín R. Kiernan

I regard [judo] as a principle of life, art and science. In fact, it is a means for personal cultural attainment.

Kanō Jigorō

These things shall be! A loftier race
Than e'er the world hath known, shall rise
With flame of freedom in their souls,
And light of science in their eyes.

John Addington Symonds

Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn’t come close.

Jerry Coyne

Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?

Robert Charles Wilson The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)

Evolutionary Darwinists need to understand we are taking the dinosaurs back. This is a battle cry to recognize the science in the revealed truth of God.

Ken Ham

“Do you know computer science?”
“I know it’s for lamers who can’t handle real math.”

Rudy Rucker Mathematicians in Love (2006)

Soap prevented more deaths than penicillin. That’s technology, not science.

John Lanchester

Climate change is a moral issue. It is not just science.

Adenike Akinsemolu

"I think you have to try to walk in the middle, like, with the empathy and humility. And that's actually what science is about, is the. Is the humility."

Lex Fridman

The first two are into social sciences while the last two read computer science. However, they all have creative abilities.

Adenike Osofisan

In science, you are dealing with facts. You prove them or dispute them, not the complicated stories of wars that happened before we were born.

Alice Nabatanzi

Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.

Jean de La Bruyère The Characters or Manners of the Present Age (1688)

Science... has ended by utterly repudiating the personal point of view.

William James The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)

If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

Robert W. Floyd The Paradigms of Programming (1979)

I was amazed at how this outstanding connoisseur of Indian knowledge in the field of exact sciences showed himself to be so captive to Cantor’s authority.

Max Simon

Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science...

Donald Knuth The Art of Computer Programming (1968)

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