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“[about writing science fiction with an African sensibility] You have to reinvent the language. You have to craft some bizarre amalgam of the sensibility you're trying to bring and a science fiction sensibility... you're grafting two things together that did not grow together, and it's difficult to do that successfully.”
Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find it much of a science either.”
Jean Chrétien (born 1934) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Politicians of all stripes are always in danger at looking at every problem from an abstract point of view or being briefed by officials, academics, or economists who know every science but the science of human nature.”
Jean Chrétien (born 1934) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I miss those days when people believed in science and common sense as in the Fifties and Sixties. Now fundamentalism and contempt for science seems to be spreading. I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That’s not the way it is today, not even in Sweden. For hundreds of years we have struggled to achieve a secular society, and now we seem to be going backwards.”
Björn Ulvaeus (born 1945) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Björn Ulvaeus Speaks on Humanism, 14 July 2006
“Today political science is often said to be ‘descriptive’ or ‘empirical,’ concerned with facts; political philosophy is called ‘normative’ because it expresses values. But these terms merely repeat in more abstract form the difference between political science, which seeks agreement, and political philosophy, which seeks the best.”
Harvey Mansfield (born 1932) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Student’s Guide to Political Philosophy (2001), p. 6
“Science, according to science, ought to be the most important attribute of human beings.”
Harvey Mansfield (born 1932) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ancient science had sought knowledge of what things are, to be contemplated as an end in itself satisfying to the knower. In contrast, modern science seeks knowledge of how things work, to be used as a means for the relief and comfort of all humanity, knowers and non-knowers alike.”
Leon Kass (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Psychology. The Science of Soul, in days of old: a Science which served as the unavoidable basis for physiology. Whereas in our modern day, it is psychology that is being based (by our great scientists) upon physiology.”
Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science is widely esteemed. Apparently it is a widely held belief that there is something special about science and its methods.”
Alan Chalmers (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Which facts are relevant and which are not relevant to a science will be relative to the current state of development of that science.”
Alan Chalmers (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science describes not just the observable world but also the world that lies beyond the appearances. This is a rough statement of realism with respect to science.”
Alan Chalmers (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws – a thing which can never be demonstrated.”
Tryon Edwards (1809–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The development (rather than the history) of operations research as a science consists of the development of its methods, concepts, and techniques. Operations research is neither a method nor a technique; it is or is becoming a science and as such is defined by a combination of the phenomena it studies.”
Russell L. Ackoff (1919–2009) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 265, the lead paragraph ; Cited in: Joe Kelly (1969) Organizational behaviour. p. 26.
“We have overwhelming evidence that available information plus analysis does not lead to knowledge. The management science team can properly analyse a situation and present recommendations to the manager, but no change occurs. The situation is so familiar to those of us who try to practice management science that I hardly need to describe the cases.”
C. West Churchman (1913–2004) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: C. West Churchman, "Managerial acceptance of scientific recommendations" in California Management Review, Vol 7 (1964), p. 33; cited in Management Systems (1971), by Peter P. Schoderbek, p. 199
“I was an Editor-in-Chief of Philosophy of Science during its early years. Now, over a half century later, I have to admit that I was not very clear what the journal was about, except that it tried to reflect on the meaning of science and its relation to other human activities. At this time I am even less sure of its purposes.”
C. West Churchman (1913–2004) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: C. West Churchman "Guest editorial: what is philosophy of science" In: Philosophy of Science Vol. 61, No. 1 (Mar., 1994), p. 132-141
“Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.”
Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am not a man of science, and I do not wish to be thought so. If I were, I would rather not have the name. There are men, named men of science, for whom I have great respect; there are many for whom I have no respect.”
George Long (scholar) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An engineering science aims to organize the design principles used in engineering practice into a discipline and thus to exhibit the similarities between different areas of engineering practice and to emphasize the power of fundamental concepts. In short, an engineering science is predominated by theoretical analysis and very often uses the tool of advanced mathematics.”
Qian Xuesen (1911–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Stay away from the church. In the battle over science vs. religion, science offers credible evidence for all the serious claims it makes. The church says, “Oh, it’s right here in this book, see? The one written by people who thought the sun was magic?” I for one would like to see some proof that there is a God. And if you say, “a baby’s smile,” I’m going to kick you right in the stomach.”
Seth MacFarlane (born 1973) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The 'Family' guy commences to Harvard, Entertainment Weekly, 13 June 2006.
“Systems science is a science whose domain of inquiry consists of those properties of systems and associated problems that emanate from the general notion of systemhood.”
George Klir (1932–2016) first seen 1002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: George Klir (2001) Facets of Systems Science. Kluwer: New York. p. 5; As cited by: Hieronymi, A. (2013), Understanding Systems Science: A Visual and Integrative Approach. Syst. Res. doi: 10.1002/sres.2215.
“What is systems science? This question, which I have been asked on countless occasions, can basically be answered either in terms of activities associated with systems science or in terms of the domain of its inquiry. The most natural answers to the question are, almost inevitably, the following deﬁnitions:”
George Klir (1932–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“# Systems science is what systems scientists do when they claim they do science.”
George Klir (1932–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The aims of social science with respect to human organizations are like those of any other science with respect to the events and phenomena of its domain. Social scientists wish to understand human organizations, to describe what is essential in their form, aspects, and functions.”
Daniel Katz (1903–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is essential to stress that information science is not solely concerned with science information, nor indeed only with the provision of information to academic and professional workers, but with all forms of information transfer in society.”
Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Exploring maps as representation forges important links between cartography and a variety of cognate fields concerned with this topic in its various facets (including geographical information systems [GIs] and remote sensing, as well as art, cognitive science, sociology, cognitive and environmental psychology, semiotics, and even the history and philosophy of science).”
Alan MacEachren (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Architecture is defined as the art and science of creating buildings. Systems engineering may be similarly defined as the art and science of creating systems.”
Derek Hitchins (born 1935) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 309; partly cited in: Kurt A. Richardson, Wendy J. Gregory, Gerald Midgley (2006) Systems Thinking and Complexity Science. p. 39
“The creeds of religion correspond to theories of science... intuitions of the human soul should be studied by the methods which are adopted with such great success in the region of positive science.”
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Religion survives science and secular ideology not because it is prior to or more primitive than science or secular reasoning, but because of what it affectively and collectively secures for people.”
Scott Atran (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science and technology derive from the effort to understand and control the natural environment. Familiarity with the history of science is essential to an awareness of the development of society.”
Walter Rodney (1942–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That is the wrong question to ask…You can’t go into science thinking of a Nobel Prize. You can only go into science because you’re interested in it.”
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You give attention to army, police and things like that. Who pays attention to science? When I got the Dan David prize, which is similar to Nobel and given once in a few years by Israel, nobody talked about it. Nobody asked me anything about it. Nobody even knows and nobody understands it. It is so prestigious in the world of science but why didn’t anyone write about it?”
C. N. Ramachandra Rao (born 1934) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The science of agriculture does not lay down any positive rules, but it develops the motives by which the best possible method of proceeding may be discovered and successfully pursued. In fact, the art executes some law given and received, but it is from science that law emanates.”
Albrecht Thaer (1752–1828) said by 1828 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Natural science served as - if we overlook the hasty identification of mind and matter which had its origin in natural science - as a shining and fruitful example to psychology.”
Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 6; Partly cited in: Peter Ashworth, ‎Man Cheung Chung (2007) Phenomenology and Psychological Science, p. 54.
“Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.”
Charles Krauthammer (1950–2018) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Column, March 13, 2009, "Obama's 'Science' Fiction" at jewishworldreview.com.
“Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth; some of its rivals do. That science is in some respects inhuman may be the secret of its success in alleviating human misery and mitigating human stupidity.”
Eric Temple Bell (1883–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What I would be so happy about is—I don’t expect everybody to understand everything about science at the end of the season, but I want them to be curious about learning more. I want them to understand the power of science, and its tremendous liberating potential. If those things are communicated, then I feel like my work is done.”
Ann Druyan (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We really believe that science is a birthright that belongs to every one of us. And the degree to which we're excluded from science is the degree to which we are powerless. We can't be informed decision-makers.”
Ann Druyan (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The science of arithmetic may be called the science of exact limitation of matter and things in space, force, and time.”
Francis Wayland Parker (1837–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 64. Reported in Robert Edouard Moritz. Memorabilia mathematica; or, The philomath's quotation-book, (1914), p. 263
“I consider astrology as a perfect science. But, I also believe what has to happen cannot be changed. Then what’s the use? When you know, you worry about it. That why I never consult any astrologer. Of course, many of them come to me. But, no one can say I invited him or asked any questions. But when I believe it’s a science, how can I deny it?”
Morarji Desai (1896–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now as to what pertains to these Surd numbers (which, as it were by way of reproach and calumny, having no merit of their own are also styled Irrational, Irregular, and Inexplicable) they are by many denied to be numbers properly speaking, and are wont to be banished from arithmetic to another Science, (which yet is no science) viz. algebra.”
Isaac Barrow (1630–1677) said by 1677 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Calculations are to the economic science what bones are to the human body. Without them it will always be a vague and confused science, at the mercy of error and prejudice.”
François Quesnay (1694–1774) said by 1774 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: François Quesnay in letter to Mirabeau (Archives Nationales, Ms. 779, 4 bis, p.2 note); as cited in: Richard Van Den Berg and Albert Steenge. "Tableaux and Systèmes. Early French Contributions to Linear Production Model…
“Natural science must therefore, in truth, be declared silent on this question of pantheism; as indeed it is, and from the nature of the case must be, upon all theories of the supersensible alike — theistic, deistic, atheistic, pantheistic. Natural science has no proper concern with such theories.”
George Holmes Howison (1834–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Arithmetic is the science of the Evaluation of Functions, Algebra is the science of the Transformation of Functions.”
George Holmes Howison (1834–1916) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 5, p. 175. Reported in: Memorabilia mathematica or, The philomath's quotation-book, by Robert Edouard Moritz. Published 1914
“Science popularization involves information about science explaining the things and their implications in detail, or any beliefs the reader might have and also tell them about the newer discoveries so as to enlarge the persons horizons.”
Jayant Narlikar (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Special pleading that the standards of science should be lessened to admit explanations with no falsifiable consequences, in order to keep alive a bold speculative idea, should be strongly resisted. ...ultimately science is not interested in what might be true, it is interested only in what can be convincingly demonstrated by deductions from observational evidence.”
Lee Smolin (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Because girls are raised to specialize in a certain set of human characteristics, would they not, then, bring to science a different sensibility? Does that sensibility have the right to be represented in science—or, for that matter, in business, politics, law, or medicine?”
Theodore Roszak (scholar) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I will assert that U.S. economic growth is in lockstep with science and technology and, by extension, science education.”
Bill Nye (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is not likely that science, which is basically the cause of our spiritual troubles, is likely also to produce the cure for them. Also it lies in the nature of science that, though it can teach us the best means for achieving our ends, it can never tell us what ends to pursue.”
Walter Terence Stace (1886–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science is a most useful thing for us all. It is one of the most useful ornaments of man. There is no dress which embellishes the body more than science does the mind.”
Laurent Clerc (1785–1869) first seen 1864 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement of 1864, quoted in Pamphlets on the Deaf, Dumb & Blind
“The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into view.”
Matt Ridley (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source