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“At its birth eugenics was not a politicised science; it was a science-ised political creed.”
Matt Ridley (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science has no prejudices — though scientists often do. Science is like figures: they do not lie themselves, but the men who figure are often the greatest liars in the world.”
Elisha Gray (1835–1901) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Energy and vibration: energy, sound, heat, light, explosives (1900); Fords, Howard & Hulbert, p. 201
“The Age of Insight is a product of my... fascination with the intellectual history of Vienna from 1890 to 1918, as well as my interest in Austrian modernist art, psychoanalysis, art history, and the brain science that is my life's work. ...I examine the ongoing dialogue between art and science that had its origins in fin-de-siècle Vienna and document its three major phases.”
Eric Kandel (born 1929) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Age of Insight (2012)
“I was astonished to discover that working in the laboratory—doing science in collaboration with interesting and creative people—is dramatically different from taking courses and reading about science.”
Eric Kandel (born 1929) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Age of Insight is a product of my subsequent fascination with the intellectual history of Vienna from 1890 to 1918, as well as my interest in Austrian modernist art, psychoanalysis, art history, and the brain science that is my life's work. In this book I examine the ongoing dialogue between art and science that had its origins in fin-de-siècle Vienna...”
Eric Kandel (born 1929) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This dialogue between the ongoing research in brain science and art continue to this day. ...Such dialogues could help us explore the mechanisms in the brain that make perception and creativity possible, whether in art, the sciences, the humanities, or everyday life. In a larger sense, this dialogue could help make science part of our everyday experience.”
Eric Kandel (born 1929) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Vienna School of Art History, influenced in part by Sigmund Freud's psychological work, began to develop a science-based psychology of art that was initially focused on the beholder. Today, the new science of mind has... again focused on the beholder.”
Eric Kandel (born 1929) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“While the inner sciences have a long history in countries such as India, Tibet and China, they have never rejected the outer sciences, and there has never been a conflict between dharma and science as there has been between Western religion and science.”
Rajiv Malhotra (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As I delved deeper, I realized that the schisms between Christianity and science have never been resolved, not even after centuries of conflict. Instead, there is merely a veneer that attempts to hide the underlying cracks. This is not the case with dharmic traditions where there is no inherent conflict in principle between science and dharma.”
Rajiv Malhotra (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“‘History’ and ‘Political Economy’ have not been differentiated on the basis of systematic reflection; rather, they have been quite different in origin and conceptual structure. Only on further development of both disciplines are they set closer together and merged into a single science, namely ‘Sociology’, which for about a hundred years past has been assimilating other fields of science.”
Otto Neurath (1882–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sooner these anti-invasionist scholars realize that linguistics is a science which cannot, and indeed need not, be wished away, and the sooner they decided to expend their energies in the study, rather than the dismissal, of this science, the better they will be able to serve their own cause.”
Shrikant Talageri (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Political science seeks to analyze such complexities. As you study political science you may find that your conception of politics has been influenced by many factors.”
Ellen Grigsby wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He linked the notion of a spontaneous order that forms when agents follow (often simple) rules with the idea of complex systems in the 1950s. This was a critical breakthrough, for it allowed him to drop the old natural science-social science dichotomy ...”
Bruce Caldwell (economist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not too much science but too little science is at the root of our troubles.”
Ralph Vary Chamberlin (1879–1967) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Kingdom of Man" (1938)
“The rise of determinism, it's just a consequence of the fact, science advanced tremendously, as a result mostly of... Newton and people like Laplace. They could determine things, but it's only the large scale science that ...seems ...deterministic. This century it's not been so.”
John Horton Conway (1937–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no such thing as a religious theory, just like science doesn’t promote “non-religious doctrines” either. A doctrine is a set of taught beliefs. Science is an investigation; not a matter of belief.”
Aron Ra (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If each one of us adds something to the common weal in the domain of science, or art, or morality, the reason is because long series of generations have lived, worked, thought, and suffered before us. The science which you honour to-day has been created by the patient labours of our predecessors.”
Marcellin Berthelot (1827–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even though it’s applied science we’re dealin’ with, it still is – science!”
Leslie Z. Benet (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“European civilisation is unique because it is the only civilisation which has imposed itself on the rest of the world. It did this by conquest and settlement; by its economic power; by the power of its ideas; and because it had things that everyone else wanted. Today every country on earth uses the discoveries of science and the technologies that flow from it, and science was a European invention.”
John Hirst (1942–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The US plutocracy has declared war on sustainable development. Billionaires such as Charles and David Koch (oil and gas), Robert Mercer (finance), and Sheldon Adelson (casinos) play their politics for personal financial gain. They fund Republican politicians who promise to cut their taxes, deregulate their industries, and ignore the warnings of environmental science, especially climate science.”
Jeffrey Sachs (born 1954) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The US Plutocracy’s War on Sustainable Development, w:Project-Syndicate, Nov 2, 2017
“At the present time administration is more an art than a science; in fact there are those who assert dogmatically that it can never be anything else. They draw no hope from the fact that metallurgy, for example, was completely an art several centuries before it became primarily a science and commenced its great forward strides after generations of intermittent advance and decline.”
Lyndall Urwick (1891–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 189; cited in: W. Bartley Hildreth et al. (eds.), Handbook of Public Administration, Second Edition,1997, p. 754
Also quoted by: Luther H. Gulick
“Historically, "public administration" has grown in large part out of the wider field of inquiry, "political science." The history of American political science during the past fifty years is a story much too lengthy to be told here, but some important general characteristics and tendencies it has communicated to or shared with public administration must be noted.”
Dwight Waldo (1913–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A century ago two fields, political science and public administration, were one. At the 1939 meeting of the American Political Science Association, public administration created its own professional organization, and the two fields’ paths have since diverged.”
Mary E. Guy wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By the late 1800s and into the early 1900s, political science courses had begun appearing on college campuses. This was followed by the establishment of political science departments and degree programs.”
Mary E. Guy wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Throughout the 1940s, discourse produced a redefinition and reconstruction of issues. Shifting from the philosophical to the positivist, behavioralism drove the paradigm through which political science research would be conducted and legitimated... Theoretical science replaced the original intent of reform as the raison d’etre of the field.”
Mary E. Guy wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“De Saussur... develops the concept of semiology as the science which studies the functioning of signs in society, and treats linguistics as a branch of such a general science of signs.”
Adam Schaff (1913–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline of the subject. It is due simply to the fact that power, wealth and prestige can only be obtained by the correct application of science.”
Derek Barton (1918–1998) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Derek Barton, Some Reflections on the Present Status of Organic Chemistry, in Science and Human Progress: Addresses at the Celebrations of the 50th Anniversary of the Mellon Institute (1963), 90.
“That this change of view as to the basis of science cannot take place without misunderstanding, or without giving an opportunity to those who dislike science to decry its weaknesses, is only natural. To change the basis of operations during a campaign always gives a chance to the enemy, but the chance must be risked if thereby we place ourselves permanently in a position of greater strength...”
Karl Pearson (1857–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are periods in the growth of science when it is well to turn our attention from its imposing superstructure and to carefully examine its foundations. The present book is primarily intended as a criticism of the fundamental concepts of modern science...”
Karl Pearson (1857–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The obscurity which envelops the principia of science is not only due to an historical evolution influenced by the authority which attaches even to the phraseology used by great discoverers, but to the fact that science, as long as it had to carry on a difficult warfare with metaphysics and dogma, like a skilful general conceived it best to hide its own deficient organisation.”
Karl Pearson (1857–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The views expressed in this Grammar on the fundamental concepts of science, especially on those of force and matter, have formed part of the author's teaching since he was first called upon (1882) to think how the elements of dynamical science could be presented free from metaphysics to young students. But the endeavour to put them into popular language only dates from... 1891...”
Karl Pearson (1857–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Although science claims the whole universe as its field... it confesses that its ignorance is more widely extended than its knowledge. In this very confession... it finds a safeguard for future progress. Science cannot... allow theologian or metaphysician... to the foreshore of our present ignorance, and so hinder the development in due time...”
Karl Pearson (1857–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Neutrality and objectivity are not the same thing. Neutrality refers to whether science takes a stand; objectivity, to whether science merits claims to reliability. The two need not have anything to do with each other. Certain sciences may be completely "objective" — that is, valid — and yet designed to serve certain political interests.”
Robert N. Proctor (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many innovations of current history and philosophy of science were, in fact, anticipated in Neurath’s oeuvre. The rediscovery of Neurath was therefore not merely a phenomenon of academic nostalgia, but itself constitutes research into the conditions and possibilities of changing a paradigm in the philosophy of science.”
Friedrich Stadler (born 1951) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Friedrich Stadler (1996). "Otto Neurath—encyclopedia and utopia." In: E. Nemeth & F. Stadler (Eds.). Encyclopedia and utopia: The life and work of Otto Neurath (1882–1945), Boston: Kluwer. Stadler, 1996, p. 3
“It has long seemed obvious — and is, in fact, the characteristic tone of European science — that “science” means breaking up complexes into their component elements. Isolate the elements, discover their laws, then reassemble them, and the problem is solved. All wholes are reduced to pieces and piecewise relations between pieces.”
Max Wertheimer (1880–1943) said by 1943 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In physical science and in industrial technique... we have emancipated ourselves... from the savage dependence upon catastrophes for progress... In science and in industry we are radicals—radicals relying on a tested method. But in matters of social organization we retain a large part of the conservatism characteristic of the savage mind...”
Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was a borderline computer science major before I came into interaction design; I’m really interested in physics and chemistry. This class was a way to throw design back into science and mathematics and help a community that is helping to give back to us.”
Akshay Agrawal (born 1998) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“President Biden, instead of following the science, is attempting to distract from his numerous crises by playing politics and moving out ahead of the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) when it comes to the science on coronavirus vaccine booster shots.”
Steve Scalise (born 1965) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Scalise and James Comer in a letter to the FDA according to Republicans ask FDA for details on any White House pressure on boosters" (September 14, 2021)
“Free trade or political economy is the science of free society, and socialism is the science of slavery.”
George Fitzhugh (1806–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science, as traditionally defined, is fundamental to conservation biology but does no good if isolated from "softer" issues such as ethics, sociology, and political strategy. Indeed, there is nothing more dangerous than science in an ethical vacuum.”
Reed Noss (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The parts of science that rule out theism are firmly fixed. Finally, it's not just probable that God doesn't exist. For scientism, it's as close to a sure thing as science can get.”
Alexander Rosenberg (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Just because people doing science are embedded in a particular social and cultural milieu, it doesn’t follow that science is not universal.”
Mordechai Ben-Ari (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It would be nice if our political discourse could be rational enough to actually accept the science that says Obama’s historic oil production increases are bad for the planet, instead of looking at that science and just screaming “but Obama is popular among voters!”
David Sirota (born 1975) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter Post (28 December 2018)
“Philosophy is not exactly science, [analytic philosophers] think, but it must resemble science in its style and mood of detachment: its appearance of being without any particular person’s or any particular group’s biases.”
Bruce Wilshire (1932–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have a president who believes in science-fiction. I believe in science-fact. Climate change is real and we're in the midst of a climate crisis. We need a #GreenNewDeal and as president, on day one, America will rejoin the Paris Agreement.”
Kamala Harris (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There’s a whole area of climate so-called science that is really more like a cult. It’s like Hare Krishna or something like that. They’re glassy-eyed and they chant. It will potentially harm the image of all science.”
William Happer (born 1939) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: February 15, 2017 ()
“Ha! It's poetry in motion. She turned her tender eyes to me, As deep as any ocean, As sweet as any harmony. Mm, but she blinded me with science (She blinded me with science!) And failed me in biology, yeah.”
Thomas Dolby (born 1958) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: She Blinded Me with Science" (1982)
“Pythagorean mathematics, the theory of the four elements of Thales of Miletus, Epicurean materialism, Platonic idealism, Judaism, Islam, and modern science are rooted in Egyptian cosmogony and science.”
Cheikh Anta Diop (1923–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you pride yourself with your science, then you must realize that you have no merit; science is a gift that God has granted you. Thus do not acknowledge it in a way that angers the Highest, because he could erase it from your head through an illness of some sort.”
Ibn Hazm (994–1064) said by 1064 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The idea of God is born to explain what science cannot explain. Science says what stars are, how they work. We know how to reconstruct a family album of the universe but we can't say why it's made that way. And here God was invented. God is comfortable, too comfortable. But it's a childish idea, like Santa Claus.”
Margherita Hack (1922–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source