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.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Challenging the conventional wisdom is the way to make waves in science.
True science teaches us to doubt and to abstain from ignorance.
You need to know enough of the natural sciences so that you are not a stranger in the world.
Metaphysics is the science of the Absolute or the true nature of things.
Science is supposed to be cumulative, not almost endless duplication of the same kind of things.