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“In short, Indian science was born out of a mystical and religious culture and the etymology of the Sanskrit words used to describe numbers and the science of numbers bears witness to this fact.”
Georges Ifrah (1947–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It has been science that has greatly accelerated the human endeavor over the last few centuries and it will be science that will meet the challenges of the present century.”
Kirk Johnson (scientist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As a peace-loving people, and as members of the world community of peoples, we recognize clearly that science has raced ahead of man's readiness to deal with all the complexities of what science has created. With the advent of nuclear weapons, war has ceased to offer a solution for disputes among nations. War has become, not only out-of-date, but senseless.”
Lewis Strauss (1896–1974) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks Prepared by Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, for delivery to Joint U.S .- Canada Civil Defense Committee Battle Creek, Michigan, Oct. 19, 1956
“There is no science without religion, and there is no religion without science.”
George King (1919–1997) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Operation Space Power (1987)
“This is a breakthrough not just because science is done, but also because of where the science is done”
Senjuti Saha wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[W]hen I was... 18 I... read... Lewis Mumford and... [saw] that... we could have a science and technology... understood and controlled by the individual instead of the other way around. ...I've been trying to crack the crap in science for 15 or 16 years now.”
Steve Baer (1938–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The quality and numbers of science graduates had increased in the country and four new science and technology courses has been introduced”
Caroline Amali Okao (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is that the important subject of spiritualties, witchcraft, and rituals could inhale the breath of science in its entirety and independent of already concluded global biases. It is that Africans should build science out of African elements.”
Ousseina Alidou (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I definitely considered different career paths. As I kid, I knew that I liked math and science, and that was fun. But I also liked art and writing, as well as architecture and photography. I was kind of a student activist too, so was contemplating something in the government. It was a hard decision, but mostly I really enjoyed science and was good at it, so that’s what I chose.”
Sossina M. Haile (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Over the years I have become very passionate in making people aware of science in the marketplace. I used to run a programme for high school learners where I would take them to the supermarket and show them how the products they buy everyday are influenced or impacted on by science.”
Tebello Nyokong (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to see Africa become less dependent on the West and find solutions to our own problems through science. No country has ever developed without a good science base.”
Tebello Nyokong (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is important to place science as a priority in African countries. No country has ever developed without a good science base.”
Tebello Nyokong (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are starting with scientists but I think in our way we are doing something remarkable. I think we are somehow contributing to the decision-making in our region for our countries, just by keeping everything aside and focusing on one issue, that’s science. We do not fight when we deal with science. We only focus on physics, chemistry and biology and there is no space for other conflicts.’”
Gihan Kamel (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our research has a broad impact on chemistry, biology, material science, and environmental science.”
Nora Berrah (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am grateful for what science has already brought to people's lives. My mother had open-heart surgery, and her life was saved. There are no borders in science, people are equal: scientists are not separated by color, gender, religion, or money”
Zohra ben Lakhdar (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I work for the autonomy of science, to free it from ideological discourses that are a source of blockage. If science has progressed in the West, it is by detaching itself from the religious sphere. The Muslim nations that have fallen so far behind need to take a leap forward.”
Faouzia Charfi (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have to mitigate the shortage of women in science via promoting and encouraging careers in science. The benefits of gender balance are not just for women and girls, but to ensure the coherence of the human beings as a cornerstone of society.”
Farida Fassi wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science didn’t interest me at school but I found science as related to ceramics, geology and alchemy to be very intriguing. I think we don’t always choose our influences, they somehow choose us.”
Merran Esson (1950–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Creation science was nothing but religion dressed up as science, the high court decreed, and therefore was barred by the Establishment Clause from public school classrooms along with other forms of religious instruction.”
Edward J. Larson (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be thoughtful, appreciate everyone’s contributions, and organize your life so that you can pursue science. Science is more than a full-time job, and so is raising a family and being part of a community. Get help with the house, logistics, and anything else you can. Try to spend your time doing what matters most to you.”
Claudia V. Jakubzick wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Millions of years later, science proves from those rocks that a lake once existed there. Therefore, science is not about memorizing facts, but rather a path of discovery that begins with the question “why.” While people applaud the results, understanding the methodology that produced them is even more valuable.”
Bolortsetseg Minjin (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One reason for the astonishing growth of science and technology in this century has been, of course, war; but another, and perhaps a more important one, is simply that science has created the conditions—in western society at least—under which it best flourishes: these are affluence, leisure, and a high regard for education.”
Robin Wilson (author) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Terrific Play of Forces Natural and Human", in Clarion (New York: New American Library, 1971), p. 207
“Science is systematic organisation of knowledge about the universe on the basis of explanatory hypotheses which are genuinely testable. Science advances by developing gradually more comprehensive theories; that is, by formulating theories of greater generality which can account for observational statements and hypotheses which appear as prima facie unrelated.”
Francisco J. Ayala (1934–2023) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Introduction to Studies in the Philosophy of Biology (Macmillan, 1974), p. ix
“The objective world of science has nothing in common with the world of things-in-themselves of the metaphysician. The metaphysical world, assuming that it has any meaning at all, is irrelevant to science.”
Aram D'Abro first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Evolution of Scientific Thought from Newton to Einstein (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927) p. 152, footnote
“at some point, you realize that almost all fiction, especially science fiction, is activist fiction. Sometimes it’s an activist fiction for the status quo! But for the most part, it’s not, there’s like people all over the right and left and then weird combinations of both right and left, all over the history of science fiction.”
Margaret Killjoy (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The deep gender bias of science (including medicine), of its very ways of seeing problems, resonates, Keller argues, in its "common rhetoric." Mainly "adversarial" and "aggressive" in its stance toward what it studies, "science can come to sound like a battlefield.”
Evelyn Fox Keller (1936–2023) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reflections on Gender and Science (New Haven: Yale UP, 1985) pp. 123–24. Reported in Rosalind P. Petchesky, "Fetal Images: The Power of Visual Culture in the Politics of Reproduction", Feminist Studies, vol. 13, no. 2 (…
“I often work with the Association for South African Women in Science and Engineering and I’m very involved in trying to promote and encourage young people to come into science”
Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I really wanted to know about the archaeology of South Africa and although Professor Wintle and I came from different backgrounds, we learned from each other. She took me through the steps of the science behind luminescence dating. I was meticulous and hard-working and never gave up and realised I had innate ability to do science.”
Zenobia Jacobs wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Professor Van Helsing is the priest of Good who, given the times, does not wear the robes of a monk or priest, but the garb of science. And so he interprets well the period in which the action takes place: positivism. A priest, therefore, who uses reason, the power of science, but who does not forget the sacred, magical instruments.”
Vittorino Andreoli (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Paul Feyerabend described science as a place of anarchy based not on logical-rational method but on protocols, the tools of the trade. Science is, therefore, a ‘relative’ discipline, capable of affirming truth only in relation to data conventionally compared: a truth-error. (Requiem per la verità, p. 334)”
Vittorino Andreoli (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science fairs “serve as a natural breeding ground for budding scientists” and “as a continual source of female and minority science-minded students.”
June Bacon-Bercey (1928–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is not only about opening up new possibilities for women in the existing field of science. This is also about opening up the existing field of science to the new possibilities that women can bring.”
Lisa P. Jackson (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is possible to convey the fundamental aspects of all the science that we do in a cultural context that’s relevant for the people. That’s probably the most important thing that we do in science—to make it real and important for the people that we’re speaking to.”
Fatimah Jackson wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the search for knowledge in science and engineering, the worst intellectual crime one can commit is to prejudice one’s results, to prejudge how something will turn out. However, this is precisely what we are doing when we fail—from elementary school to graduate school—to encourage women and minorities to enter the fields of science and engineering.”
Shirley McBay (1935–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am a Professor in the Departments of Earth and Planetary Science and Environmental Science, Policy, and Management (see contact information below).”
Jillian Fiona Banfield (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am a Professor Emeritus in Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science (SCS). That means I am formally retired, but still active in research, advising, and departmental activities. My home department is the Language Technologies Institute (LTI). I am also emeritus faculty in the Computer Science Department (CSD).”
Scott Fahlman (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In my view the science that we call AI, maybe better called computational intelligence, is the manifest destiny of computer science.”
Edward Feigenbaum (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The only difference is that cognitive science is more committed to understanding existing biological cognition, as opposed to all possible cognition, which is what AI studies. So, to cite a well-worn analogy, cognitive science is to AI as ornithology is to aerodynamics.”
Drew McDermott (1949–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We now share HTC capabilities across more than 125 institutions. And that brought with it many complications, not only in terms of volume of users, but also in diversity of science domains, types of institutions and politics. I always listed sociology as the top obstacle to high throughput computing and we have our fair share in the Open Science Grid.”
Miron Livny (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Doing that work is the true joy of training the next generation of scientists and clinicians who are going to be doing science differently, who are going to be translating science into care differently”
Paula A. Johnson (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“TPC Trillium Parameter Consortium is a worldwide effort to try to get the organizations that are interested in pursuing science in this way, using the latest and greatest AI technologies, to basically pursue AI for science. And the organization basically includes many research institutions, supercomputing centers, etc. that are basically pursuing this path. And from Japan, we have RCS.”
Satoshi Matsuoka (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This project really changed the narrative about what Africa can or cannot do. This idea that we are just consumers of science and technology – when you see that Africa can actually contribute to science and technology in some areas, it allows us to be a real global player.”
Pontsho Maruping wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In terms of economic development, having Africa be a player in high-tech industries, rather than just being a consumer of science and technology, will stimulate job creation, infrastructure development, and increased investment in science and technology in general.”
Pontsho Maruping wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think there is no special importance to have female scientists in the area of nuclear science, but there should be female scientists in all areas of science. I think so because I have made the experience that teams comprised of both men and women are more productive and innovative, as men and women usually have different ways to look at things and therefore complement each other.”
Gabi Schneider (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We fear not science. We deplore ignorance. If the men of science will be true to their reason, we will meet them on every field and teach them the harmonies of nature and of faith. We will show them how the human mind turns from the creature in all its variety and beauty to the creature's God.”
Thomas Scott Preston (1824–1891) first seen 1884 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: God and Reason: Lectures Upon the Primary Truths of Natural Religion (1884)
“The science of calculations with unknowns is the source of the science of calculations with knowns.”
Bhāskara I (600–680) said by 680 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Datta and Singh, History of Hindu Mathematics: A Source Book, Part II, 1962:quoted in : Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Prakashan Pr…
“If one excludes the philosophy of science from the ambit of a study of its history, then one is obliged to do history with the default philosophy of science. In our case this means that one must then accept the present-day Western philosophy of mathematics, not only as a privileged philosophy, but as the only possible philosophy of mathematics.”
C. K. Raju (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science is the development of techniques to achieve certain goals in an optimal way. [...] Given certain goals, science indicates the most suitable means to achieve them, but it does not indicate which goals should be pursued.”
Emanuele Severino (1929–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Responding to the perceived surrealism of Clangers] They're surreal but logical. I have a strong prejudice against fantasy for its own sake. Once one gets to a point beyond where cause and effect mean anything at all, then science fiction becomes science nonsense. Everything that happened was strictly logical according to the laws of physics which happened to apply in that part of the world.”
Oliver Postgate (1925–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Saying that Christian theology provided the cultural and philosophical ‘humus’ for the birth of science is of little interest to anyone, while saying, impertinently, that science and theology are eternally at war, or that Christianity is irrational, sells books.”
Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source