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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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Art is science made clear.

Jean Cocteau Le Coq et l’Arlequin (1918)

... in science, we often have predecessors much further back in time than we think a priori.

Louis Eugène Félix Néel

the natural sciences intrigued and fascinated me through the efforts of my teachers. I had the inner motivation to learn, and I was inquisitive.

Olubola Babalola How I became Africa’s first female professor in quantity surveying (2016)

I did a three-year diploma in sport and exercise science, and I’m also qualified in sports nutrition

Faye Tunnicliffe

The science of fools with long memories.

James Planché Misattributed

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford Attributed Rutherford at Manchester (1962)

I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.

Ernest Rutherford Attributed

It is not in the nature of things for any one man to make a sudden violent discovery; science goes step by step, and every man depends on the work of his predecessors. When you hear of a sudden unexpected discovery—a bolt from the blue, as it were—you can always be sure that it has grown up by the influence of one man on another, and it is this mutual influence which makes the enormous possibility of scientific advance. Scientists are not dependent on the ideas of a single man, but on the combined wisdom of thousands of men, all thinking of the same problem, and each doing his little bit to add to the great structure of knowledge which is gradually being erected.

Ernest Rutherford Attributed The Birth of a New Physics (1959)

Science is often identified with knowledge. This is a gross misunderstanding. Science is not merely knowledge, but also consciousness, that is, the skill of properly using knowledge.

Vasily Klyuchevsky Attributed

Nothing is so fatal to the progress of the human mind as to suppose that our views of science are ultimate; that there are no mysteries in nature; that our triumphs are complete, and that there are no new worlds to conquer.

Humphry Davy Attributed

A little science estranges men from God, but much science leads them back to Him.

Louis Pasteur Misattributed

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Aldous Huxley Misattributed

Religion has no more place in science than science has in religion.

Louis Pasteur Disputed

All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection.

David Wheeler Attributed

The purpose of management science is to secure improvement in social systems by means of the scientific method.

C. West Churchman Attributed

Etymology is a science in which vowels signify nothing at all, and consonants very little.

Voltaire Disputed

The world is my country, to promote science is my religion.

Christiaan Huygens Disputed

Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.

Albert Einstein Attributed Albert Einstein: A guide for the perplexed (1979)

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

Galileo Galilei Misattributed Building Fluency Through Practice and Performance (2008)

The more I study science, the more I believe in God.

Albert Einstein Attributed

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