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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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I am inherently a curious person, and I am always questioning everything. *Fundamental science strikes me as being an ideal home for the curious.

Yasmine Amhis Featured Woman Scientist of the Month: Yasmine Amhis (2022)

Only sneaky people and impostors can oppose the progress of sciences and can discredit them, because they are the only ones to whom the sciences do harm.

Frederick II of Prussia

…the science fiction community is not, and was not especially back then, a gay-friendly organization…

Samuel R. Delany

[T]he science of life […] is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

Claude Bernard Introduction à l'Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale (1865)

Of science and logic he chatters,
As fine and as fast as he can;
Though I am no judge of such matters,
I’m sure he’s a talented man.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

Jean Rostand

Doctor, you have science, I have faith.--to his physician, this was possibly a Jules Verne quote.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Bad ideas in computer science and anywhere are sticky. If the first idea was a bad idea, then because it works people will sort of repeat it.

Joe Armstrong

Science doesn't stop when it comes up with a nice answer. It looks for more data. It comes up with new ideas. It's willing to admit it's wrong.

Guy Consolmagno

In science fiction novels, the main thing was the radio. With it, the happiness of mankind was expected. Now there is a radio, but there is no happiness.

Ilf and Petrov Ilya Ilf's notebooks (1925)

# Not only are the tenets of science constantly subject to challenge and revision, but its prophets are under challenge too...

Walter Orr Roberts

I saw the growing interest in data science as a distinct field, and proposed to the Illinois Tech university leadership.

Shlomo Argamon

According to the science of biology, people were not 'created'. They... evolved. And... not... to be 'equal'.

Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

Science... the ways it does its calculating that approximately nobody going in at a basic level can gain any sense of the whole.

Buckminster Fuller Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)

Diversity and integration are also needed in science and technology. Pride and prejudice are obstacles to scientific advancements and truth seeking.

Newton Lee

The rapid development of science... has, as it were, burst its old shell, now become too narrow.

Hermann Weyl Space—Time—Matter (1952)

Experience by itself is not science.

Edmund Husserl Pure Phenomenology (1917)

Science is a quest for understanding.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell Beautiful Minds (2010)

Thanks to our fresh understanding of the deep-time face of grace, science and religion... are ushering each other into greatness.

Michael Dowd Thank God for evolution! (2007)

Also, students in the various SHSs are beginning to understand and appreciate the study of science and mathematics, whether in the urban or rural areas

Abena Durowaa Mensah

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