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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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It is my craft and my science to Watch. It is yours to jeer. Each of us to our specialty.

Robert Silverberg Nightwings (1968)

[I]n science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

Mary McCarthy On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)

All in all, Engels talked so much rot of every kind, that now all the world’s academies of science should be directed to rectify his mistakes and idiocies.

Alexander Zinoviev On the Social State of Marxism (1978)

A modern poet has characterized the personality of art and the impersonality of science as follows: Art is I: Science is We.

Claude Bernard Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV (1928)

The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear.

Percival Lowell Mars and its Canals (1906)

My whole existence has been devoted to science and to teaching, and these two intense passions have brought me very great joy.

Charles Fabry

Perfect contemplatives hear without astonishment all that the learned propound since they excel in a science transcending all understanding.

John of St. Samson

I continue to explore the science in which I work almost like a child, with naïve joy, curiosity, and amazement.

Eric Kandel In Search of Memory (2006)

Almost the whole of Greek science and philosophy begins with Thales.

Thomas Little Heath Achimedes (1920)

[T]he laws of science are products of the human mind rather than factors of the external world.

Karl Pearson The Grammar of Science (1900)

"We have the science on our side."

Greta Thunberg

I obtained BSc and MSc degrees in Geography from Cambridge, before attending Simmons College in America, for a master’s degree in Library Science.

Adetoun Ogunsheye

I contacted institutions such as the Association of African Historians or the Council for the Development of Social Science Research (Codesria).

Adame Ba Konaré

The link between art and science for me is my love of color and my love of light.

Nia Imara

This is a breakthrough not just because science is done, but also because of where the science is done

Senjuti Saha

I decided to dedicate my life to science during my childhood.

Evelyne Isaack Mbede

“Whether I am scanning mummies or doing fetal MRIs, I’m using modern technology and science to do a good deed for patients and for heritage.”

Sahar Saleem

I worry that the impulses driven by anti-intellectualism and anti-science play such a major part in shaping our political landscape today.

Jacqueline Jones Giving Voice to History (2020)

For a long time, the social sciences gave an image of the Maghreb as a society Islamized without Islam.

Fanny Colonna

So, my dear sisters! If you grow by steeping yourself into science, the culture of the state shall blossom through you!

Kulyash Baiseitova

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