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“It is my interpretation from the Koran that all people have equal rights. That means men and women, Muslims and non-Muslims too, and in a society where all people have equal rights, that means all people should make decisions equally. … This doesn't mean that we're changing God's law, It just means we're reinterpreting laws according to the development of science — and the realities of the times.”
Yousef Saanei (1937–2020) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted from interviews in Tehran (June 2000), published in Sacred Rage (2001) by Robin Wright, p. 280.
“To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation, is the sentiment of a barbarian; civilisation and science are calculated to explode so ferocious an idea. It was once universally admitted and approved; it is now necessarily upon the decline.”
William Godwin (1756–1836) said by 1836 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People who love science fiction really do love sex.”
Susie Bright (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When we inquire about the general forms of economic phenomena, about their uniformities, or about a key to understanding them, we ipso facto indicate that we wish at that moment to consider them as something to be investigated, to be sought for, as the “unknown”; and that we wish to trace them to the relatively “known,” just as any science deals with its object of inquiry.”
Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The most important subject, and the first problem of philosophy, is the restoration in man of the lost image of God; so far as this relates to science. Should this restoration in the internal consciousness be fully understood, and really brought about, the object of pure philosophy is attained.”
Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) said by 1829 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This perception—this comprehension—this right discernment of the great events and general results of universal history, is what might be termed a science of history; and I would have here preferred that term, were it not liable to much misconception, and might have been understood as referring more to special and learned inquiries, than the other name I have adopted...”
Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) said by 1829 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For now I had begun to believe, despite all the talk of science around me, that there was a magic in spoken words.”
Ralph Ellison (1914–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Methodological rules are for science what rules of law and custom are for conduct.”
Émile Durkheim (1858–1917) said by 1917 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men already had ideas on law, morality, the family, the state, and society itself before the advent of social science, for these ideas were necessary conditions of his life”
Émile Durkheim (1858–1917) said by 1917 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have to realize that the way of thinking that got us to this place no longer holds. We have to rethink elements as basic as space and time, to go all science fictiony [sic] on you in this sense.”
Justin Trudeau (born 1971) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking to university students in September 2014, as cited by the Toronto Sun
“Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.”
Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814–1880) said by 1880 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Michel de Montaigne (attributed)
“Dealing with a government [Tsarist Russia] with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult and delicate matter.”
John Hay (1838–1905) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a 1903 letter to President Roosevelt, John Hay Papers, Library of Congress.
“In Europe itself it is not probable that war will ever absolutely cease until science discovers some destroying force so simple in its administration, so horrible in its effects, that all art, all gallantry, will be at an end, and battles will be massacres which the feelings of mankind will be unable to endure.”
William Winwood Reade (1838–1875) said by 1875 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The one, the outstanding, dramatic, imaginative, historical picture of life, to be inspired by Victorian science.”
William Winwood Reade (1838–1875) said by 1875 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: V. S. Pritchett in The New Statesman and Nation vol. 25 (1943), p. 323.
“Only a great fool would call the new political science diabolic: it has no attributes peculiar to fallen angels. It is not even Machiavellian, for Machiavelli's teaching was graceful, subtle, and colorful. Nor is it Neronian. Nevertheless one may say of it that it fiddles while Rome burns. It is excused by two facts: it does not know that it fiddles, and it does not know that Rome burns.”
Leo Strauss (1899–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In order to see the relation between philosophy as rigorous science and the alternative to it clearly, one must look at the political conflict between the two antagonists, i.e. at the essential character of that conflict.”
Leo Strauss (1899–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's scary in this country, it's probably because of our bad educational system, but the percentage of people that believe in Creationalism is really scary for a country that's going to have to compete in the world where science and medicine require a better understanding.”
Michael Bloomberg (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowlege can never be lost.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) first seen 1799 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to William Green Mumford (18 June 1799)
“And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them. In short, the flames kindled on the fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) first seen 1821 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to John Adams (12 September 1821)
“Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we—because we don’t question these things. And science is the enemy because it is the questioner. Faith saves our souls alive by giving us a universe of the taken-for-granted.”
Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Journal entry (1923), as quoted in The Ghost in the Little House, ch. 7, by William V. Holtz (1993).
“Indeed, the 1960s was a time of radical change. So much was happening — in science and technology, religion, politics, culture, and society as a whole — and at a fast pace. Imagine how my curiosity was piqued by everything going on around me. If there was ever a time that I developed a love for learning, an ability to focus on responsibility, and to deliver on my own goals, it was then.”
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius.”
Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the questions on which clarity of thinking is now most necessary is that of the relation between the methods of science and of Marxist philosophy. Although much has already been written on the subject, yet there is still an enormous amount of confusion and contradictory statement.”
John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dialectical Materialism and Modern Science", in Science and Society, Volume II, No. 1 (Winter 1937); Online (here) on Marxists Internet Archive (2002)
“But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.”
John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Marx and Science (1959), p. 39
“Hogben's Science for the Citizen would be an admirable text-book for such teaching.”
John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]he centre of interest... lies in natural science and technology because... the sciences of society were first embodied in tradition and ritual and only took shape under the influence and on the model of the natural sciences.”
John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today, we are ranked so poorly in achievement scores. The average high school graduate in Japan has a better knowledge of science and mathematics than the average Filipino college graduate.”
Francis Escudero (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The relation between language and thought are discussed in Stuart Chase, Power of words (1954), especially Chapter 10; the important sourcebooks in this area are Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics, 4th ed. (1958), and John B. Carroll, ed., Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf (1956).”
S. I. Hayakawa (1906–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The science of human nature belongs to people who are not afraid to live independent lives. They alone have the flexible access to experience which can bring human wisdom and strength into being, and once these assets exist, they will send forth their influence with an authority that cannot be resisted, unmindful of artificial man made boundaries, reaching anywhere in the world.”
Paul Rosenfels (1909–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Years ago, farmers were uneducated and eccentric and said funny things, and we ourselves were comparatively uneducated. We had no antibiotics, few drugs. A lot of time was spent pouring things down cows' throats. The whole thing added up to a lot of laughs. There's more science now, but not so many laughs.”
James Herriot (1916–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have named PROUN [the art, stepping over from painting to architecture] a station on the path to the construction of the new form.. .From being a simple depicter the artist becomes a creator (builder) of forms for a new world — the world of objectivity. This does not mean the creation of a rivalry with the engineer. Art has not yet crossed paths with science.”
El Lissitsky (1890–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whether one agrees or not with Mr. Taylor (or the other climatologists whose voices are being stifled), this is an inappropriate politicalization of climate science to promote a particular view.”
Roger A. Pielke (born 1946) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: More on the Suppression of Climate Change Views," Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group Weblog (2007-06-23)
“The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence:”
Francisco Varela (1946–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Francisco, an experimental and theoretical biologist, studied what he termed "emergent selves" or "virtual identities." His was an immanent view of reality, based on metaphors derived from self-organization and Buddhist-inspired epistemology rather than on those derived from engineering and information science.”
Francisco Varela (1946–2001) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: John Brockman (2001) "Edge: THE EMERGENT SELF" op edge.org, June 5, 2001
“Vast is the field of Science … the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.”
Samuel Richardson (1687–1761) said by 1761 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.”
Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.”
Albertus Magnus (1200–1280) said by 1280 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed to Albertus Magnus in: Albertus Magnus; cited in: Morris Bishop (1968) The Middle Ages. p. 252.
“Effective managing therefore happens where art, craft, and science meet. But in a classroom of students without managerial experience, these have no place to meet — there is nothing to do.”
Henry Mintzberg (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science can only be comprehended epistemologically, which means as one category of possible knowledge, as long as knowledge is not equated either effusively with the absolute knowledge of a great philosophy or blindly with scientistic self-understanding of the actual business of research.”
Jürgen Habermas (1929–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Philosophy's position with regard to science, which at one time could be designated with the name "theory of knowledge," has been undermined by the movement of philosophical thought itself. Philosophy was dislodged from this position by philosophy.”
Jürgen Habermas (1929–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Critical social science attempts] to determine when theoretical statements grasp invariant regularities of social action as such and when they express ideologically frozen relations of dependence that can in principle be transformed.”
Jürgen Habermas (1929–2026) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 310 as cited in: Dominick LaCapra (1983) Rethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, Language. p. 170
“Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.”
Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) first seen 1679 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to the Master of University College, Oxford; published in J. R. Tanner (ed.) Private Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers of Samuel Pepys, 1679-1703 (1926) p. 109. (1700)
“The de-eroticization of the world, a companion to its disenchantment … seems to result from a combination of causes—our democratic regime and its tendencies toward leveling and self-protection, a reductionist-materialist science that inevitably interprets eros as sex, and the atmosphere generated by “the death of God” and of the subordinate god, Eros.”
Allan Bloom (1930–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of your own minds, and the examination of the fair material world which extends around you!”
Frances Wright (1795–1852) said by 1852 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Boz, who had no patience with Science, always confused north and south.”
Thomas M. Disch (1940–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by which brains worked out that special trick that has enabled them to add to the cosmic scheme of things: color, sound, pain, pleasure, and all the other facets of mental experience.”
Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913–1994) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Evolution of the Human Brain" (1964), p. 3
“The new way of thinking, spawned by the cognitive revolution, shows strong promise ... Reversing previous doctrine in science, the new paradigm affirms that the world we live in is driven not solely by mindless physical forces but, more crucially, by subjective human values. Human values become the underlying key to world change.”
Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.”
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Our Eternity, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“My Dear Rupa, the science of devotional service is just like a great ocean, and it is not possible to show you all the length and breadth of the”
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486–1534) said by 1534 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Living on silence, Living by the book. You get it to a science Of living on one good look. So put out all the fires And blow away the smoke. I'm getting pretty tired Of living on hope.”
Aimee Mann (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source