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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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The world is clamoring for global regulations that respect scientific achievements, which abound, but it is not science that governs the world.

José Mujica Civilization Against Freedom, 2013 Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 68th Session, in New York City (2013)

War is the science of destruction.

John Stevens Cabot Abbott The History of Napoleon Bonaparte (1883)

The battle between Science and Superstition is by no means over, but for Science it has been and continues to be a winning fight.

Rose Pastor Stokes Speech (1916)

What make some other girls succeed in sciences is having the mentality that they are not that difficult.

Claire Karekezi Rwanda’s first female neurosurgeon urges girls to embrace science (2019)

Methods that do not resemble western science are not de facto "primitive."

Grace Dillon Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction (2012)

Science of course is the great international bond.

Muna Lee Cultural Interchanges between the Americas (1929)

As the leading science and technology University in Ghana, nobody is going to be left behind as far as our delivery of quality service is concerned.

Rita Akosua Dickson

I am fascinated by science and its logicality. For me, things must always add up

Achieng Abura

I inspire women in science all over the world, and more so in Africa.

Faith Osier

Science, technology and innovation must never be understood as for the specialized elite divorced from society that it finds itself.

Trusty Gina

They drew lessons from the decline of science in the Arab world and sought a middle way to reconcile attachment to religion with modernity.

Faouzia Charfi

The truth is, women in research and science encounter more hardship compared to their male counterparts.

Irene Ghobrial

“We have to live in the universe science gives us. A theology that is contrary to reality must be abandoned or improved.”

Edward J. Larson Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (1997)

The purpose of science is to develop a shared understanding of the natural world.

Joshua Lederberg

Science has no homeland, but the scientist has one, and it is to that homeland that he must dedicate his knowledge.

Sékou Touré

The language should be accorded just the same dignity and respect as those other standards that science was then also defining.

Simon Winchester The Surgeon of Crowthorne (1998)

Astrology is a disease, not a science.

Maimonides

The objective world of nineteenth-century science was, as we know today, an ideal, limiting case, but not the whole reality.

Niels Bohr Remarks after the Solvay Conference (1927)

The Cuban Revolution takes up Marx at the point where he himself left science to shoulder his revolutionary rifle.

Che Guevara Notes on the Cuban Revolution (1960)

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.

Emil Cioran Tears and Saints (1937)

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