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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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Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

W. H. Auden The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)

"Healing,"
Papa would tell me,
"is not a science,
but the intuitive art
of wooing Nature."

W. H. Auden Epistle to a Godson, and Other Poems (1972)

It's tempting to dismiss the notion of highly intelligent machines as mere science fiction, but this would be a mistake, and potentially our worst mistake ever.

Stephen Hawking Brief Answers to the Big Questions (2018)

I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can't stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy.

Kurt Vonnegut Bennington College address (1970)

A person who thinks he learns science from science fiction is like one who thinks he learns history from historical novels, and he deserves what he gets.

Joe Haldeman Infinite Dreams (1978)

The bullying powers use different excuses to prevent transfer of science and technology and progress of the nations of our region.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

An excess of science will leave none of us alive.

R. A. Lafferty Space Chantey (1968)

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

Kenneth Boulding

While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowlege can never be lost.

Thomas Jefferson

You can't invent yourself as you maunder on. Your fabrications aren't going to impress the blood test, the urinalysis or the chest X-ray. Science is not amused.

John Leonard Private Lives in the Imperial City (1979)

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

Gregory Benford Timescape (1980)

Global warming science is uneven and evolving.

Joe Barton

Worldwide, boys are 50 percent more likely than girls to fail to meet basic proficiency in any of the three core subjects of reading, math, and science.

Warren Farrell The Boy Crisis (2018)

Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.

L. P. Jacks BBC Radio National Lecture (1938)

The aesthetic dimensions of science, like that of great classical music, are evident to the aficionado.

Varadaraja V. Raman

It has been said that science is proof without certainty, where as religion is certainty without proof.

Varadaraja V. Raman

The scientific books written in Arabic during the Middle Ages were, for a few centuries, the main vehicle of the living science.

George Sarton

Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State.

Lev Artsimovich

The young mathematical disciple 'topology' might be of some help in making psychology a real science.

Kurt Lewin

No scientist is as model minded as is the statistician; in no other branch of science is the word model as often and consciously used as in statistics.

Hans Freudenthal The Concept and the Role of the Model in Mathematics and Natural and Social Sciences (1961)

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