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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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You had to admire their honesty. No wonder they did so well at the sciences.

Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign (1999)

Stanislaw Ulam
It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

Stanislaw Ulam

Science is not art. Yet, despite the lack of complete identity between art and science, there is much in common among different creative processes.

Paul Samuelson Foundations of Economic Analysis (1947)

It is an act of folly on our part to expect the same truth, the same knowledge and the same power from both science and spirituality.

Sri Chinmoy Songs of the Soul (1971)

Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don't feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran The Tell-Tale Brain (2010)

Burne was tough. Burne practiced archeology, the most inconvenient of the sciences.

James K. Morrow The Wine of Violence (1981)

Science is widely esteemed. Apparently it is a widely held belief that there is something special about science and its methods.

Alan Chalmers What Is This Thing Called Science? (1999)

As a subfield, public administration first appeared separately in the annual listing of doctoral dissertations in the American Political Science Review in 1936.

Mary E. Guy

But these were the lies of science, the lies of statistics and mathematics: you can't collect three grains of rice from everybody.

Osamu Dazai

Science is objective, indifferent; it does not consider whether a thing matters or not.

Lev Shestov

Science pretends to the certainty, the universality, and the necessity of its statements.

Lev Shestov

The fundamental laws of science and chemistry are absolute and fully trustable.

Osamu Shimomura

Science is simply the art of understanding nature, ... using all rational methods.

Laurence McKinley Gould

The chief obstacle... to our improvement in the moral and metaphysical sciences is the obscurity of the ideas, and ambiguity of the terms.

David Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)

Counter-induction is... both a fact—science could not exist without it—and a legitimate and much needed move in the game of science.

Paul Karl Feyerabend Against Method (1975)

Applied psychology can... speak the language of an exact science ill its own field, independent of economic opinions and debatable partisan interests.

Hugo Münsterberg

We have now a science called astronomy. That science has done more to enlarge the horizon of human thought than all things else.

Robert G. Ingersoll The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

H. L. Mencken A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

No matter how various the subject matter I write on, I was a science-fiction writer first and it is as a science-fiction writer that I want to be identified.

Isaac Asimov In Joy Still Felt (1980)

La verdadera ciencia enseña, por encima de todo, a dudar y a ser ignorante. (True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.)

Miguel de Unamuno

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