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“Much of present science rests on engineering tools, and as time goes on, engineering seems to involve more and more of the science part. ...the two fields are growing together! ...and now there is not enough time to allow us the leisure which comes from separating the two fields.”
Richard Hamming (1915–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I live and work with three basic assumptions, 1) There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman. 2) Worldwide, half of all brains are in women. 3) We all need permission to do science, but, for reasons that are deeply ingrained in history, this permission is more often given to men than to women.”
Vera Rubin (1928–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We hardly know the limit of intelligence of individuals who can fruitfully contribute to science in one way or another if they are given the proper training – including graduate training – as assistants, as supervised or semi-independent researchers, as team members. Individuals with any of a very broad spectrum of intellectual attributes can contribute to science.”
Roland W. Schmitt (1923–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Teachers of science in schools and colleges must be masters of the tools for ensuring integrity in science and must instill them in their students.”
Lewis M. Branscomb (1926–2023) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (1994, p. 45)
“It is childish to assume that science began in Greece; the Greek "miracle" was prepared by millenia of work in Egypt, Mesopotamia and possibly in other regions. Greek science was less an invention than a revival.”
George Sarton (1884–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Given a clear course and that most rare of national qualities, common sense, physical science can abolish the struggle for existence so far as concerns food and . But so far the pearls of science have been cast before swine, who have given us in return millionaires and s, armaments and the desolation of war.”
Frederick Soddy (1877–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The purpose of science in understanding who we are as humans is not to rob us of our sense of mystery, not to cure us of our sense of mystery. The purpose of science is to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate that mystery. To always use it in a context where we are helping people in trying to resist the forces of ideology that we are all familiar with.”
Robert Sapolsky (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a "pure" or "exact" science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.”
Northrop Frye (1912–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns into a (political) pressure group.”
Paul Karl Feyerabend (1924–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science is not sacrosanct. The mere fact that it exists, is admired, has results is not sufficient for making it a measure of excellence. Modern science arose from global objections against earlier views and rationalism itself, the idea that there are general rules and standards for conducting our affairs, affairs of knowledge included, arose from global objections to common sense.”
Paul Karl Feyerabend (1924–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The laws of thought are natural laws with which we have no power to interfere, and which are of course not to be in any way confused with the artificial laws of a country, which are invented by men and can be altered by them. Every science is occupied in detecting and describing the natural laws which are inflexibly observed by the objects treated in the Science.”
William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.”
William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science is not art. Yet, despite the lack of complete identity between art and science, there is much in common among different creative processes.”
Paul Samuelson (1915–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.”
Paul Samuelson (1915–2009) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted in K. Puttaswamaiah, "Contributions of Paul A. Samuelson", in K. Puttaswamaiah, Paul Samuelson and the Foundations of Modern Economics (2002)
“Well, I will say this. And this is the main thing to remember. Macroeconomics -- even with all of our computers and with all of our information -- is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science. It can be better or it can be worse, but there isn't guaranteed predictability in these matters.”
Paul Samuelson (1915–2009) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Conor Clarke, An Interview With Paul Samuelson, Part One (2009)
“If we do not return to the old maxims, if education is not restored into the hands of priests, and if science is not every where placed in the second rank, the evils which await us are incalculable: we shall become brutalized by science, and this is the lowest degree of brutality.”
Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821) said by 1821 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding “truth”: dogma, authority, and revelation. Science does find truth, faith does not.”
Jerry Coyne (born 1949) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: William Lane Craig defends his ridiculous claim that animals don’t suffer" February 9, 2013
“The different claims among these faiths have consequences, for they’ve produce endless misery over the course of history....Clearly, religions aren’t incompatible only with science: they’re incompatible with one another....This farrago of conflicting and irresolvable claims about reality stands in stark contrast to science.”
Jerry Coyne (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science in fact has a lot to say about the supernatural. It can and has tested it, and so far has found no evidence for it....Indeed, over its history science has repeatedly investigated supernatural claims and, in principle, could find strong evidence for them. But that evidence hasn’t appeared.”
Jerry Coyne (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are already scientists-- respected scientists in this country who do experiments on things that most people consider supernatural, such as prayer. When Newton proposed the theory of gravitation it was dismissed as supernaturalism because it was action at a distance. What constitutes supernaturalism in today's science may very well not be supernatural in tomorrow's science.”
Jonathan Wells (1942–2024) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wells testimony, Kansas evolution hearings, 2005.
“Science follows the evidence wherever it leads, but Darwinism does not. So the present controversy over evolution is not a war between science and religion. It is primarily a war between Darwinism and evidence--and the evidence will win.”
Jonathan Wells (1942–2024) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Problem Of Evidence, 2009.
“The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow the noblest ideals: for the truths which science ignores and must ignore are precisely those which have the deepest bearing on life and conduct.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ever since Comte first set the agenda of social science, his megalomania lingers on in sociology, political science, and other disciplines.”
Thomas Flanagan (political scientist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Knowing how things work is important, but I think that's an incomplete view of what science literacy is or, at least, should be. Science literacy is an outlook. It's more of a lens through which you observe what goes on around you.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's an awful lot of mythology hidden in science. The pathology that was hidden behind nineteenth-century science is beginning to be fairly obvious. I think that the same thing goes on today in sociology and psychology, even in biology.”
Joanna Russ (1937–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Economics is a social science, not a physical science.”
Jim Stanford (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The girls got sent to the domestic science room and the boys to the science lab. ... I protested — unsuccessfully.”
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We need a science to save us from science.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: NY Times Magazine, as reported in High Points in the Work of the High Schools of New York City, Vol. 34 (1952), p. 46
“The wars fanned the wings of science, and science brought to mankind a thousand blessings, a thousand problems and a thousand perils.”
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: This Age of Government by Great Dictators, News of the World, 10 October 1937
“Le savant doit ordonner ; on fait la science avec des faits comme une maison avec des pierres ; mais une accumulation de faits n'est pas plus une science qu'un tas de pierres n'est une maison.”
Henri Poincaré (1854–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ch. IX: Hypotheses in Physics, Tr. George Bruce Halsted (1913)
“A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity”
Voltaire (1694–1778) first seen 1768 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The critical review, or annals of literature, Volume XXVI, by A Society of Gentlemen (1768) p. 450
“We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.”
Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the many, the specialists, gain the day, it will be the end of science as we know it - of great science. It will be a spiritual catastrophe comparable in its consequences to nuclear armament.”
Karl Popper (1902–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: K. Popper, The Myth of the Framework, London: Routledge. As quoted in The Cambridge Companion to Karl Popper (2016) by J. Shearmur, G. Stokes
“Science is not a system of certain, or well established, statements; nor is it a statement which steadily advances towards state of finality. Our science is not knowledge (epistēmē): it can newer claim to have attained truth, or even substitute for it, such as probability. . . . We do not know; we can only guess.”
Karl Popper (1902–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. Two-thirds of 2001 is realistic — hardware and technology — to establish background for the metaphysical, philosophical, and religious meanings later.”
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Making of Kubrick's 2001 (1970) by Jerome Agel, p. 300
“Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today — but the core of science fiction, its essence, the concept around which it revolves, has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Own View" in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1978) edited by Robert Holdstock; later published in Asimov on Science Fiction (1981)
“No matter how various the subject matter I write on, I was a science-fiction writer first and it is as a science-fiction writer that I want to be identified.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Joy Still Felt (1980), pp. 286-287
“The Bible and science agree in being unable to say anything certainly about what happened before the beginning. There is this difference. The Bible will never be able to tell us. It has reached its final form, and it simply doesn't say. Science, on the other hand, is still developing, and the time may come when it can answer questions that, at present, it cannot.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In the Beginning (1981), p. 14
“There is more to a science fiction story than the science it contains. There is also the story.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Robot Dreams (1986), introduction
“Of all the cultural aspects of humanity, the only one which is not broken up into national or regional splinters is science. Different nations have different languages, they may have different religions, may have different dietaries, may have different holidays, different ways of thinking, but here’s only one science.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview by Richard Heffner on The Open Mind (19 June 1988); video (25:31)
“By the time I was reading the Bible, however, science fiction and science books had taught me their version of the universe and I was not ready to accept the creation tale of Genesis or the various miracles described throughout the book. My experience with the Greek myths (and, later, the grimmer Norse myths) made it quite obvious to me that I was reading Hebrew myths.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Arthur and I share similar views on science fiction, on science, on social questions, and on politics. I have never had occasion to disagree with him on any of these things, which is a credit to his clear-thinking intelligence.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many critics avoid science fiction and fantasy as demons avoid holy water. And why not? A science fiction work that needs explaining may or may not be trash, but the standard-issue critic is not likely to know the difference, and not likely to be able to explain it either.”
Larry Niven (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn't mean that religion can. It's a simple and logical fallacy to say, 'If science can't do something, therefore religion can'.”
Richard Dawkins (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The popularity of the paranormal, oddly enough, might even be grounds for encouragement. I think that the appetite for mystery, the enthusiasm for that which we do not understand, is healthy and to be fostered. It is the same appetite which drives the best of true science, and it is an appetite which true science is best qualified to satisfy.”
Richard Dawkins (born 1941) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Science Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder", John Brockman, Edge.org, December 29, 1996
“Science is not a social construct. Science’s truths were true before there were societies; will still be true after all philosophers are dead; were true before any philosophers were born; were true before there were any minds, even trilobite or dinosaur minds, to notice them.”
Richard Dawkins (born 1941) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (6 March 2021)
“As for science and religion, the known and admitted facts are few and plain enough. All that the parsons say is unproved. All that the doctors say is disproved. That's the only difference between science and religion there's ever been, or will be.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is something which unites magic and applied science while separating both from the wisdom of earlier ages. For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality, and the solution had been knowledge, self-discipline, and virtue. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.”
C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source