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“There were many Hayeks: Hayek, the political scientist; Hayek, the economist; Hayek, the philosopher of social science; Hayek, the psychologist. Even in these different roles, he played many parts.”
Mark Blaug (1927–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science is not a subject, it's a method. And the method can be applied to anything. Anybody can be a scientist.”
Lawrence Rocks (chemist) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: New York Interview with Steve Overmyer on CBS New York in 2017.
“In a certain sense, doing science is like hunting for the killer, with the scientist in the investigator's shoes.”
Margherita Hack (1922–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science is fun, to be a scientist, this is a fun job. What is exciting is that there is a complexity, and then it is you who can solve it by reading articles or doing experiments and put together things which maybe nobody did. Then you realise what’s going on. The joy that you were the first one to know that this is how things happens.”
Katalin Karikó (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The reason I created Jimmy in the first place was I’ve always been a huge fan of science and technology and space, but I was never smart enough to actually become an astronaut or become a scientist — my math skills aren’t strong enough.”
John A. Davis (born 1961) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How Jimmy Neutron Went From A Childhood Nickname To A Major Franchise (21 December 2016)
“For most of my life I thought about science and its application to leaving people better off, so I wanted to be a scientist and do something that would help people.”
Quarraisha Abdool Karim (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was a curious child of educated parents who thought I was a scientist in the making. They sent me to a specialised Science High School and my interest grew stronger and here I am today.”
Eucharia Oluchi Nwaichi (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.”
Hans Eysenck (1916–1997) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rebel With a Cause: The Autobiography of Hans Eysenck (ed. Transaction Publishers, 1997), ISBN 9781412832748
“As a believing scientist [...] it is my deep conviction that it is our task to search nature and the universe, as Galileo Galilei, the father of modern science, did, for the footprints of God.”
Antonino Zichichi (1929–2026) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Antonino Zichichi, Dio. La scienza, le prove, RAI Cultura, 2024
“I am a scientist. That is enough. I do not make value judgments in my work or worry about ethics or doing right (or wrong). I simply do science, geography.”
William Bunge (1928–2013) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From Bunge's 1979 paper Perspective on Theoretical Geograph in volume 69 issue 1 of Annals of the Association of American Geographers
“Those 10 years at the ministry were an experience I really enjoyed, but my heart beats for science. I am definitely a scientist and teaching is among my preferred activities.”
Evelyne Isaack Mbede (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“After school, I knew that I was a scientist, one way or the other. How far I would go with the science, I did not know. I didn’t know what chemistry was about, I didn’t even know what I would do with chemistry, but it was challenging and I liked it.”
Tebello Nyokong (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To become a successful marine scientist in Africa, you must be prepared to work harder than you would in other fields. Make no room for naysayers! Look beyond boundaries, oceanography is a global science! You may not be recognized or even relevant to people at the onset of your career in your country, but your work may attract international attention.”
Edem Mahu wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My job was to be a window on science for the Chief of Staff of the Air Force. I was the first person to be asked to be Chief Scientist who was not an Aero-Astro person, a weapons person, or from the physical sciences. There had not been any computer scientists before me.”
Edward Feigenbaum (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“.. even at the age of eight I had a great love for science, and I knew that I wanted to be a scientist.”
Anjana Khatwa (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science has no homeland, but the scientist has one, and it is to that homeland that he must dedicate his knowledge.”
Sékou Touré (1922–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And I may add that it taught me something about the limitations of the small...orthodox scientist who won't recognize as knowledge, or as reality, any information that doesn't fit into the already existent science.”
Abraham Maslow (attributed) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Colin Wilson, New Pathways In Psychology (1972)
“I can't say much about Gould’s strengths as a scientist, but for a long time I've regarded him as the second most influential historian of science (next to Thomas Kuhn).”
Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ronald Numbers, as quoted in Michael Shermer, "This View of Science" Social Studies of Science 32/4 (August 2002): 492.
“If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then you try to do more basic science and applied science until you get it. So you make the system to fulfill that need, rather than starting the other way around, where you have something and wonder what to do with it.”
Edwin H. Land (1909–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 146, no. 1, (March 2002), p. 115
“Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in the mass production of interchangeable parts, is even more exacting than pure science in certain matters of accuracy and precision.”
Walter A. Shewhart (1891–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The true line is not between “hard” natural science and “soft” social sciences, but between precise science limited to highly abstract and simple phenomena in the laboratory and inexact science and technology dealing with complex problems in the real world.”
Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The science of mine and thine—the science of justice—is the science of all human rights; of all a man’s rights of person and property; of all his rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Lysander Spooner (1808–1887) said by 1887 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The language of science is universal, and is a powerful force in bringing the peoples of the world closer together.”
Arthur Compton (1892–1962) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Banquet speech for his Nobel Prize, 1927.
“I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means that you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.”
Robert Sapolsky (born 1957) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers (3rd ed., 2004), Preface, p. XII
“The progress of science, of good science, depends on novel ideas and on intellectual freedom: science has very often been advanced by outsiders (remember that Bohr and Einstein regarded themselves as outsiders).”
Paul Karl Feyerabend (1924–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The goals, methods, and strategies of what borders on science is different from the gyration of fashion and the incommensurability of arts and music in different epochs. Because this different process of cumulative science is imperfect, historians and philosophers of science intermittently downplay this difference.”
Paul Samuelson (1915–2009) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Keeping Whig History Honest", History of Economics Society Bulletin, 10(2), 161-167, 1988.
“Religion claims to help us understand things about the universe, but, unlike science has no way to test or verify its claims. Both science and religion compete to understand reality, but only science has the method to verify its findings, while religion merely buttresses emotional and epistemic commitments made in advance, commitments impervious to evidence.”
Jerry Coyne (born 1949) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jeffrey Tayler continues making Salon friendlier to anti-theism" April 13, 2015
“Now what should be the relation between science and spirituality? It should be a relation of mutual acceptance and true understanding. It is an act of folly on our part to expect the same truth, the same knowledge and the same power from both science and spirituality. We must not do that. Neither must we set up the same goal for science and spirituality.”
Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science is the best way to do anything (if you want to do terrible things with technology, a terrible weapons for example science is the best way to do it because science is the best way to do anything)”
Richard Dawkins (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you want to do evil, science provides the most powerful weapons to do evil; but equally, if you want to do good, science puts into your hands the most powerful tools to do so. The trick is to want the right things, then science will provide you with the most effective methods of achieving them.”
Richard Dawkins (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to metre. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication, of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) first seen 1818 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Part II: "The Lectures and Notes of 1818", Section I: "Poetry, the Drama, and Shakespeare", § "Definitions of Poetry", p. 183
“Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?”
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The idea of science as a method rather than as a body of knowledge is not widely appreciated outside of science, or indeed in some corridors inside of science.”
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.”
Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) first seen 1871 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Revue Scientifique (1871)
“I may be subjected to the criticism of being called ‘scientistic’ or a kind of blind believer in science who holds that science is able to solve absolutely all problems. Well, I certainly don’t believe that, because I cannot conceive that a day will come when science will be complete and achieved.”
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can't stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy.”
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The public has a distorted view of science, because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries. (New York Review of Books, 2011)”
Freeman Dyson (1923–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To talk about the end of science is just as foolish as to talk about the end of religion. Science and religion are both still close to their beginnings, with no ends in sight. Science and religion are both destined to grow and change in the millennia that lie ahead of us, perhaps solving some old mysteries, certainly discovering new mysteries of which we yet have no inkling.”
Freeman Dyson (1923–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ladies and gentlemen to hell with the marvellous power of storytelling. If the audience for science fiction wanted storytelling, they wouldn't read goddamned science fiction, they'd read Harpers and Redbook and Argosy... We're not into science fiction because it's "good literature," we're into it because it's weird.”
Bruce Sterling (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview.”
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama (born 1935) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The New York Times (12 November 2005).
“The green movement, in other words, is the red movement stripped of the veneer of reason and science and bent on the destruction of reason and science rather than take the trouble to learn what reason and science actually are. The green movement is the red movement no longer in its boisterous, arrogant youth, but in its demented old age.”
George Reisman (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man away from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the heart. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-realisation.”
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Physics is the Science of Matter; Metaphysics the Science of Mind — the Science of Being, apart from accidents and properties — Ontology.”
Horace Mann (1796–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man has mounted science, and is now run away with. I firmly believe that before many centuries more, science will be the master of men. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.”
Henry Adams (1838–1918) first seen 1858 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Charles Francis Adams Jr., London, 11 April 1862. In J. C. Levenson, E. Samuels, C. Vandersee and V. Hopkins Winner (eds.), The Letters of Henry Adams: 1858-1868 (1982), 1: 290.
“They're not going to teach science at all. What they do is take the science students down to the lake, tie them in burlap sacks and throw them in. If God thinks they're good science students, they float.”
Paula Poundstone (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many people affect to believe that science has progressively strangled the arts, or distorted them into some unpleasant “modern” form; and therefore that the arts can be revived only by throwing over science. Often of course this is merely an elderly sentiment in favour of the art of our younger days, and the real scapegoat is not science but change.”
Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.”
Claude Bernard (1813–1878) first seen 1872 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Leçons de Pathologie Expérimentale (1872).
“You see economic science in your day was a science of things; in our day it is a science of human beings.”
Edward Bellamy (1850–1898) said by 1898 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That is why Maulana Ahmad Riza Khan is only being true to the Faith when, as we saw at the beginning of the chapter, he says that the glory of Islam consists in having science bend to it, not in its bending to science. What holds for science holds a fortiori for mere historical ‘facts’—of whether there have been a hundred Caliphs or twelve.”
Arun Shourie (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The essence of religion is inertia; the essence of science is change. It is the function of the one to preserve, it is the function of the other to improve. If, as in Egypt, they are firmly chained together, either science will advance, in which case the religion will be altered, or the religion will preserve its purity, and science will congeal.”
William Winwood Reade (1838–1875) said by 1875 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source