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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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Science is absolutely imbued with political and commercial and personal considerations. Scientists are just people.

Patricia Fara

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live

Leo Tolstoy

The mercantile tradition that had led to Ionian science also led to a slave economy. You could get richer if you owned a lot of slaves.

Carl Sagan Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990)

Believe me there are few things deader or more obsolescent than a science fiction novel that predicts the future when the future has passed it by.

Bruce Sterling

Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great.

Barack Obama

Computer science is a restless infant and its progress depends as much on shifts in point of view as on the orderly development of our current concepts.

Alan Perlis

To err is human. Yet it is a sign of how far computer science has come that to err is also artificially intelligent

Newton Lee

In science, you don't just get to cherry-pick the parts that justify what you were going to do anyway! That's religion! You're thinking of religion.

John Oliver Last Week Tonight (2014)

Why do we think that arts are leisure? Why isn't it arts and science or arts and the most important thing in your life?

Julie Taymor Bill Moyers interview (2002)

We got into life sciences as a defence mechanism in the late '90s

Mukesh Ambani

Learning the science of the everyday is a direct route to the... knowledge... every citizen needs...

Helen Czerski Storm in a Teacup (2016)

Imagination is a huge part of what it means to do science, and I often imagine what it would be like to be up close to these environments.

Nia Imara

It was once said that religion explains in terms of agents what science explains in terms of processes.

Tony Peake

The attempt is to widen the scope of research and analysis and provide some observations on the role of social sciences in this crucial historical moment.

Heba Raouf Ezzat

I hope that in Africa many women are devoted to science (law, physics, chemistry, etc.). If a woman wants, she can do more

Joséphine Guidy Wandja

There are several cases that we’ve worked on where we’ve been back and forth to the Forensic Science Service (FSS).

Angela Gallop

We have a science and innovation hub within Félix Houphouët-Boigny University, which serves as a true incubation center connecting businesses and innovations.

Ramata Ly-Bakayoko

I became interested in computer science around the age of eighteen when I was exposed to computers for the first time.

Evelyn Namara

But even long before that my father had always encouraged to me to study sciences.

Evelyn Namara

Science grows by accumulation of knowledge. The Internet does not have one birth date or place

Philip Emeagwali

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