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.
Facts are not science — as the dictionary is not literature.
Social science is itself part of the social experience it seeks to interpret and explain.
A life of science struck me as being both interesting and international in character.
Everything you can touch and depend on in our society goes back to science.
There is no science fiction without science, just as there is no science without science fiction.
Mathematical activity has taken the forms of a science, a philosophy and an art.
Science proceeds by abstracting what is essential from the accidental details of matter and process.