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• “Evolution is purely a religion. There is no scientific evidence at all to back up any form of macro-evolution.”

  Kent Hovind (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The god of Mohammedism is not the God of the Bible by any stretch of the imagination. It is a little pantheistic god of nature. Because of this, the Islam religion accepts evolution very readily as a scientific fact because it fits so well with their teaching. In the country of Turkey (which is almost totally dedicated to Mohammed) evolution is taught as fact.”

  Kent Hovind (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The human embryo, the abortionists say, is not fully human yet and it is okay to kill it because it hasn’t yet reached the human stage. I’m not saying that abortion started with evolution. I am saying that evolution does serve to give, in the abortionist’s mind, some scientific justification to abortion.”

  Kent Hovind (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If there were other people on other planets it would certainly raise theological issues. Further, there is no (zip, zero, nada) scientific evidence of any life of any kind outside of Earth (except maybe angels).”

  Kent Hovind (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Our job is to reclaim America for Christ, whatever the cost. As the vice regents of God, we are to exercise godly dominion and influence over our neighborhoods, our schools, our government, our literature and arts, our sports arenas, our entertainment media, our news media, our scientific endeavors -- in short, over every aspect and institution of human society.”

  D. James Kennedy (1930–2007) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Reclaiming America for Christ" conference February, 2005

• “The main virtue of the physics-chemistry-biology sequence is the hierarchical nature of the sciences. Physics comes first because it serves as a powerul prerequisite for chemistry and because it can more clearly illustrate the nature of the scientific process.”

  Leon M. Lederman (1922–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “As for the bourgeois state, at the present moment, we are seeking to overcome it, to overthrow it.… Our objective is total, scientific, Marxist socialism.”

  Salvador Allende (1908–1973) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in Conversations With Allende (1970) by Regis Debray

• “Sage's light Oh and Edison He made two sparks ignite All you do It's a scientific chain reaction”

  Laura Nyro (1947–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It is almost impossible to speak of religion at all, without giving offence either on the right or on the left. With some, religion seems too sacred a subject for scientific treatment.”

  Max Müller (1823–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: , quoted in Subrata Chattopadhyay Banerjee - The Development of Aryan Invasion Theory in India, A Critique of Nineteenth-Century Social Constructionism-Springer (2020)

• “Sometimes the answers are hiding in plain sight. A eureka moment came to Archimedes when he connected the dots between the ordinary routine of taking a bath and the scientific pursuit of determining the volume of an irregularly shaped object.”

  Newton Lee wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The real solution to human longevity will likely involve both traditional and alternative medicine, scientific and philosophical problem-solving, as well as big data analysis and human intuition.”

  Newton Lee wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Human game players together with AI agents can create more powerful citizen scientists, resulting in more scientific discoveries.”

  Newton Lee wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.”

  Kenneth Boulding (1910–1993) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Kenneth Boulding (1958, p. 95) as cited in: Edward Stamp, Michael J. Mumford, Ken V. Peasnell (1993) Philosophical Perspectives on Accounting. p. 147

• “Perhaps the most difficult ethical problem of the scientific community arises not so much from conflict with other subcultures as from its own success. Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.”

  Kenneth Boulding (1910–1993) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Kenneth Boulding (1971) "The diminishing returns of science" in: New Scientist. (March 25, 1971) Vol. 49, nr. 744. p. 682

• “In modern industry, research Has come to be a kind of Church Where rubber-aproned acolytes Perform their Scientific Rites And firms spend funds they do not hafter In hope of benefits Hereafter.”

  Kenneth Boulding (1910–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Almost all computer systems of the future will utilize real-time scientific principles and technology.”

  John A. Stankovic wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “How long shall we blunder along without the aid of unpartisan and authoritative scientific assistance in the administration of justice, no one knows; but all fair persons not conventionalized by provincial legal habits of mind ought, I should think, unite to effect some change.”

  Learned Hand (1872–1961) first seen 1911 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Parke, Davis & Co. v. H. K. Mulford Co. (1911).

• “God used processes which are not now operating anywhere in the natural universe. This is why we refer to divine creation as special creation. We cannot discover by scientific investigation anything about the creative processes used by God.(Evolution: The Fossils Say No, page 42)”

  Duane Gish (1921–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Neither evolution nor creation qualifies as a scientific theory.”

  Duane Gish (1921–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Sure enough, the notion of decoding their personal DNA appealed to more than a few well-off individuals, even if it amounted to the scientific equivalent of purchasing a vanity license plate.”

  James D. Watson (1928–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The law has always had difficulty assimilating the implications, if not the very idea, of scientific evidence. Even the most intelligent lawyers, judges, and juries have customarily found it difficult to understand at first.”

  James D. Watson (1928–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I'm not familiar that they're dodging it. Maybe they are. But I think schools also ought to be fair to all views. Because, frankly, Darwinism is not an established scientific fact. It is a theory of evolution, that's why it's called the theory of evolution.”

  Mike Huckabee (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The scientific fact of clairvoyance, telepathy, soul-flight, psychometry, and prophecy are well established by incontrovertible evidence yet to mention them in certain circles is to ostracize yourself.”

  Benjamin Fish Austin (1850–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “For policy, the central fact is that Keynesian policy recommendations have no sounder basis, in a scientific sense, than recommendations of non-Keynesian economists or, for that matter, non-economists.”

  Robert Lucas Jr. (1937–2023) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Robert Lucas, Jr. and Thomas J. Sargent, "After Keynesian macroeconomics", After the Phillips Curve: Persistence of High Inflation and High Unemployment (1978).

  Also quoted by: Thomas J. Sargent

• “We are concerned with similar states of consciousness and relationship to the world.. .If previous abstractions paralleled the scientific and objective preoccupations of our times, ours are finding a pictorial equivalent for man's new knowledge and consciousness of his more complex inner self.”

  Mark Rothko (1903–1970) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: common statement in The New York Times (July 8, 1945)

• “Travel in the old ruts," quotes my friend Meredith; some ancient Chinese maxim. The way lain down by elders. Pathways through the world, pathways through the mind—it’s a shame that these days we so seldom have a guide. That our atomized worldview, mimicking scientific doctrine, sees us as separate, distinct, alone, orbiting in space, touching only an infinite void.”

  Russell Brand (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A consensus has emerged in our scientific community that global warming is no longer merely a theory but a reality, a crisis with truly global implications for planet Earth and all of us who share it. - Told to thousands at the New Jersey concert for Live Earth”

  Leonardo DiCaprio (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “There is an emerging scientific consensus that global warming is making hurricanes more intense and more destructive. It turns out that Katrina fits into a pattern that scientists and greens have been trying to warn us about for a long time.”

  Johann Hari (born 1979) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: New Orleans is a frightening glimpse of the future", The Independent (3 September 2005)

• “For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a Winter Journey, Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen: and if I am in the devil of a hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time.”

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886–1959) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Worst Journey in the World (1922), Volume One, Preface, p. viii

• “Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A reality conditioned by the materialistic and scientific ideology of psychoanalysis, that is, a historical product...”

  Mircea Eliade (1907–1986) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Journal entry (7 October 1965) as published in No Souvenirs (1977) later retitled Journal II, 1957-1969 (1989), p. 269

• “The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not witnessed by human observers. Any concession to anti-evolutionists, suggesting that there are scientific reasons to doubt the facticity of evolution, would be propagating a plain untruth.”

  Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: In a letter to J. Kunamoto, 1972.

• “Is it not clear that to give to such women as desire it and can devote themselves to literary and scientific pursuits all the advantages enjoyed by men of the same class will lessen essentially the number of thoughtless, idle, vain and frivolous women and thus secure the [sic] society the services of those who now hang as dead weight?”

  Sarah Grimké (1792–1873) first seen 1852 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Written in 1852, as quoted in ch. 87.

• “As translated by Julio Antonio Gonzalo (2008). The Intelligible Universe: An Overview of the Last Thirteen Billion Years. World Scientific. p. 301.”

  Augustin Louis Cauchy (1789–1857) first seen 1850 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1850). Considérations sur les ordres religieux adressées aux amis des sciences. Pommeret et Moreau. p. 26.

• “Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to.”

  Susie Bright (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “[T]he degree of confirmation assigned to any given hypothesis is sensitive to properties of the entire belief system … simplicity, plausibility, and conservatism are properties that theories have in virtue of their relation to the whole structure of scientific beliefs taken collectively. A measure of conservatism or simplicity would be a metric over global properties of belief systems.”

  Jerry Fodor (1935–2017) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: p. 107–108 as cited in: Philip Robbins, "Modularity of Mind", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2010 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)

• “On occasion I came to exaggerate certain forms, in violation of scientific proportion but in accordance with the balance of their spiritual relationships to each other. I made heads vastly oversized in relation to other parts of the body, because the head is the point of concentration of all the psyche, all expression.”

  Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884–1976) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: In Gerhard Wietek, Schmidt-Rottluff: Graphik, Verlag Karl Thiemig, Munich, 1971, p. 100; as quoted in 'Portfolios', Alexander Dückers; in German Expressionist Prints and Drawings - Essays Vol 1.; published by Museum Ass…

• “I cannot believe in God when there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being and creator.”

  Jodie Foster (born 1962) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in Calgary Sun (10 July 2007)

• “We believe that failing to call a spade a spade is not scientific.”

  Leo Strauss (1899–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Despite its potential, the federal government has restricted funding for creating new cell lines – putting the burden of any future research squarely on the shoulders of the private sector. Government’s most basic responsibility, however, is the health and welfare of its people, so it has a duty to encourage appropriate scientific investigations that could possibly save the lives of millions.”

  Michael Bloomberg (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Man lives in a paradoxical world where his human development is hamstrung by the fact that the only kind of free scientific inquiry he does not allow himself is the pursuit of human truth, and the only kind of audacity in engineering enterprise which is alien to his nature is the undertaking of moral intervention in the lives of others.”

  Paul Rosenfels (1909–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “'Impossible' is not a scientific term.”

  Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebushes, giraffes, and humans.”

  Brian Swimme (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I'm interested in establishing empirical correlations between a long-standing interest in Buddhist practice and scientific work.”

  Francisco Varela (1946–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for hidden divinity. As such, it is a direct descendant of the breakdown of the bicameral mind.”

  Julian Jaynes (1920–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I heard some folks saying, "I heard that warm temperatures like this happen every few years--it's normal." I also know that a lot of people are afraid to ask what it is and what causes it... here are some answers and links: Scientific opinion on climate change”

  Mike Shinoda (born 1977) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: LP/FM MB 2006

• “The gods are growing old; The stars are singing Golden hair to gray Green leaf to yellow leaf,—or chlorophyl To xanthophyl, to be more scientific.”

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I can now rejoice even in the falsification of a cherished theory, because even this is a scientific success.”

  John Carew Eccles (1903–1997) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in the Introduction of Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963) by Karl Popper

• “Scientific method isn't about winning popularity contests. It's also not about being with the majority opinion. It isn't supposed be determined by politics. It is about attempting to limit bias or prejudice in the results.”

  David A. Ridenour first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: David A. Ridenour, "Senators Try to Stifle the Global Warming Debate," Chicago Sun Times, November 16, 2006

• “Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.”

  Susanne Langer (1895–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “His insatiable passion for singular odds and ends had a meaning in it; he was groping towards a scientific ordering of phenomena; but the twilight of his age was too confusing, and he could rarely distinguish between a fact and a fantasy.”

  John Aubrey (1626–1697) said by 1697 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Lytton Strachey Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays (London: Chatto & Windus, 1931) p. 24.

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