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“We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to Abstract art, rather a new area of cognition.. .This is where abstract art steps in, in a stronger sense of life, a stronger contact with the growing life, a feeling of the pulsation of life and growth in oneself, an activation of deep-seated powers a staple vitality far deeper than our cognition, not instead of science but inspired by it.”
Asger Jorn (1914–1973) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote by Jorn, after Egill Jacobson's exhibition in Kunstforeningen (1945)
“To understand the magic way of thinking you have to know non-magic thinking. If you see that clearly, you will see how many magic thoughts are necessary elements even of natural science today. There seems to be just as much magic thinking in modern thought as in older; only it takes place in other areas.”
Asger Jorn (1914–1973) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote in Jorn's letter to anthropologist Francis Huxley (1970) - on the magical character of thinking and images
“Darwinian social theory gives us a glimpse of an underlying symmetry and logic in social relationships which, when more fully comprehended by ourselves, should revitalize our political understanding and provide the intellectual support for a science and medicine of psychology. In the process it should also give us a deeper understanding of the many roots of our suffering.”
Robert Trivers (1943–2026) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Foreword to The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (1976)
“The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.”
Ralph Cudworth (1617–1688) said by 1688 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.”
Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930–1999) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Faces of Science Fiction (1984) by Patti Perret
“It’s time to rescue "intelligent design" from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either biology or the Bible, and by asking them honestly, without foregone conclusions, science could take a huge leap forward.”
Deepak Chopra (born 1946) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Intelligent Design Without the Bible" in The Huffington Post (23 August 2005)
“The true education is consequently the science of linking up the integral parts of man, and also of linking him up in turn with his immediate environment, and then with the greater whole in which he has to play his part. Each aspect, regarded as a lower aspect, can ever be simply the expression of the next higher. p. 6”
Alice Bailey (1880–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Selflessness is the ingredient most lacking in today’s world, because people misunderstand the purpose and principle behind this wonderful science. Genuine selflessness is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.”
Bhakti Tirtha Swami (1950–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.”
Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know how reality goes. I’m already caught up in an interesting life. I don’t need to write about it...I prefer fantasy and science fiction. They’re genres that actively say that change is possible.”
Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Labels are very important to me. They’re a way of finding community and a way of community finding you. If people are looking for my work because they’re looking for the work of another woman or the work of a science fiction writer or a black writer, it helps if they know that I am that. For me, identity is kind of a mailbox.”
Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science fiction and fantasy are about looking at the world through a different lens. So whatever I write, including sex scenes, I may first think, how can I cause myself, and the reader, to see this differently? What can I do to challenge, delight, surprise, unsettle?”
Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science fiction is and has been ripe to discuss other possibilities for sex and relationships: multiple marriages, communal structures, different genders. Writers like Theodore Sturgeon, Samuel R. Delany, Octavia Butler, Elizabeth Lynn, Nicola Griffith, Elisabeth Vonarburg, Candas Jane Dorsey, Eleanor Arnason, Storm Constantine have been my touchstones.”
Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science fiction as a literature probably helped to save my life. I suspect I would have self-destructed without it, and without the people I have met because of it. So even when I'm critical of it, I'm very happy that it's here.”
Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science fiction and fantasy are already about subverting paradigms. It's something I love about them.”
Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Particularly when I speak at schools, people in the audience want to know whether there are going to be films of my books. Myself, I'm more jaundiced. I've seen what can happen when text-based science fiction gets zombified by Hollywood. Look at what happened to Gibson's "Johnny Mnemonic”
Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A lot of the time, all I'm trying to do is put some of my specific ethnocultural touchstones into science fiction and fantasy. When white writers do that, it's barely remarked-upon. And sometimes it should be, because it's often wonderful.”
Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science is not inevitable; this question is very fruitful indeed.”
Edgar Zilsel (1891–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In personal correspondence, quoted in Elisabeth Nemeth's chapter "Logical Empiricism and the History and Sociology of Science" in the Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism (2007) edited by Alan W. Richardson and Tho…
“Ethics is the science of duties, and it's principles, perceived by reason, and revealed to us by conscience.”
Francisco Luís Gomes (1829–1869) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Essai sur la théorie de l'économie politique et de ses rapports avec la morale et le droit. (1867). Quoted by Teotonio R. de Souza in Indo-Portuguese history (1985), p. 210
“Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a mainstay of the philosophy of science.”
William Poundstone (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.”
Stanisław Leszczyński (1677–1766) said by 1766 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing in predictive climate science is more certain than the extinction of many of the world’s mountain-dwelling species.”
Tim Flannery (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science is unusual in that it is cumulative. It is a system built over time, wherein useful information is retained and ideas that simply don't stand up are discarded, based on the confirmation of knowledge through testing.”
Derren Brown (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science and religion form the two pillars of our civilization and they need each other for the survival of ourselves.”
Kuruvilla Pandikattu (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only if we see religion and science as symbols leading to the depth of reality, can we talk of meaningful dialogue between the two.”
Kuruvilla Pandikattu (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The very survival of our human species needs the creative collaboration between science and religion.”
Kuruvilla Pandikattu (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Today’s challenges] demand a genuine dialogue between science and society, an enriching partnership between the two and trusting critique of one another.”
Kuruvilla Pandikattu (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They keep saying that sea levels are rising an all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. Basic science.”
Karl Pilkington (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English law is no exception from this rule.”
Edward Jenks (1861–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Magic is the science and the art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.”
Peter J. Carroll (1953–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.”
Peter J. Carroll (1953–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Any sufficiently advanced form of magick will appear indistinguishable from science.”
Peter J. Carroll (1953–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A final argument for broad freedom of expression is its effect on the character of individuals in a society. Citizens in a free society must have courage — the courage to hear not only unwelcome political speech but novel and shocking ideas in science and the arts.”
Anthony Lewis (1927–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science has taught us that what we see and touch is not what is really there.”
Hans Christian von Baeyer (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science.”
Hans Christian von Baeyer (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two competing theories against each other, or theory against observation, or a compelling mathematical deduction against ordinary common sense.”
Hans Christian von Baeyer (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[In] the definition of international system... There is some "form of control" that regulates behavior and may range from informal rules of the system to formal institutions. ...A view prevalent among many scholars of political science is that the essence of international relations is precisely the absence of control... a condition of anarchy...”
Robert Gilpin (1930–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The standard Neoclassical definition of economics... is... by Lionel Robbins... 'the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses'... [is] by... theoretical approach rather than... subject matter... a study of rational choice... deliberate, systematic ... The subject of the calculation can be anything...”
Ha-Joon Chang (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As science went further and further into the external world, they ended up inside the atom where to their surprise they saw consciousness staring them in the face!”
Ravi Gomatam (born 1950) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An interview with Ravi Gomatam by Thomas Beardy for Clarion Call magazine (Clarion University's newspaper)There Consciousness Within Science?", 1990.
“The science of anti-Semitism has as its object Judaism as a social problem, being thus, necessarily, the synthesis of all sciences that can contribute to its solution.”
A.C. Cuza (1857–1947) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From "știința antisemitismului" ("The Science of Anti-Semitism"), Apararea Nationala ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922, lst year.
“Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.”
Michael Dirda (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Words are like little gods. The pronoun "him" instead of "her," if used often enough, can disuade a girl from science or math. The words you use determine the density of gray matter in your brain. They affect your political leanings, influence how you see reality, determine your level of confidence and thus, define what it means to be you. That's what words do.”
Tom Heehler wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science embraces facts and debates opinion; religion embraces opinion and debates the facts.”
Tom Heehler wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.”
William R. Alger (1822–1905) first seen 1884 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Maturin Murray Ballou, Treasury of thought: Forming an encyclopedia of quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1884), p. 460.
“I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as to experiment, and thus be qualified at an early part of their study to discriminate between the true and the false, and acquire the facts of the science without being mystified by its fictions.”
John Joseph Griffin (1802–1877) first seen 1834 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chemical Recreations (7th Edition, 1834) Preface xiv
“Doing science," particularly the synthesis of disparate ideas, is not as arcane as it is often made out to be. Discipline and taste play a vital role, but the activity is familiar to anyone who has made some effort to be creative.”
John Henry Holland (1929–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with any art, this selection is guided by taste, elegance, and metaphor; it is a matter of induction, rather than deduction. High science depends on this art.”
John Henry Holland (1929–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin’s criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that science allows.”
Michael Behe (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life. . . . Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity that exists even at the most basic levels of life.”
Michael Behe (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.”
C. D. Broad (1887–1971) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Broad, C.D. (1926). The philosophy of Francis Bacon: An address delivered at Cambridge on the occasion of the Bacon tercentenary, 5 October, 1926. Cambridge: University Press, p. 67. The quotation is a paraphrase of the…