Science is finding things out; and in that sense history is science.
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.
Misuse of science has often obscured the value of science itself.
Modern science is based on the Latin injunction ignoramus - 'we do not know'.
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.
All the great revolutions in science start with an unexpected discrepancy that wouldn’t go away.
The physician's duty is to heal the sick, not enrich the apothecaries.
The history of science should be the leading thread in the history of civilization.
Alas! A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections — a mere heart of stone.
Science is about wonder, Jalila. I was a poor teacher if I never told you that.
Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning.