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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 often asked is [my work] science fiction or fantasy and my answer is usually ‘Yes’.

China Miéville

One of the best-kept secrets of science is that physicists have lost their grip on reality.

Nick Herbert

Ethical judgments can be [should be] included in the scope of science

C. West Churchman Theory of Experimental Inference (1948)

The complete analysis of the methods of scientific inference shows that the theory of inference in science demands the use of ethical judgments

C. West Churchman Theory of Experimental Inference (1948)

Of course I don't want the old religious dope. But I don't want just the new science dope either. I want the truth.

Olaf Stapledon Sirius (1944)

The development of the nation is intimately linked with understanding and application of science and technology by its people.

Vikram Sarabhai

It was the height of the first boom, so it was 1999. It was a good year to be a graduate in computer science.

Marissa Mayer

British author Thomas Carlyle called economics ‘the dismal science’ because the free-market economists around him were strongly opposed to slavery.

David R. Henderson The Joy of Freedom: An Economist’s Odyssey (2002)

“Science happened to me, but passion is what has kept my love for science burning”.

Olanike Kudirat Adeyemo

Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction

Gary K. Wolfe

To see where we’ve been and coming back to Earth, it’s almost impossible to deny that there is the existence of a higher being, it surely can’t just be science.

Omoyemi Akerele

The indisputable Mathematicks, the only Science Heaven hath yet vouchsaft Humanity, have but few Votaries among the slaves of the Stagirite.

Joseph Glanvill Scepsis Scientifica (1665)

His appointment as abbot may have been an excellent thing for the monastery, but it cannot be denied that it was a great misfortune for science.

Bertram Coghill Alan Windle

Theology is not the science of salvation, but of perdition.

Manlio Sgalambro Trattato dell'empietà (1987)

If your science doesn't affect the life of your people, nobody cares about you.

Oyewale Tomori

Like any branch of literature, science fiction reflects the trends of current thinking.

Terry Carr

Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks: but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.

Henri Poincaré

The state is made for man, not man for the state. And in this respect science resembles the state.

Albert Einstein The World As I See It (1949)

The undisputed monarch of all science was theology.

Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither.

Albert Einstein Principles of Research (1918)

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