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“I was a bookish kid. I spent long hours in the library reading everything I could find, histories, biographies, science fiction, fantasy, mysteries. I was curious about the world and there’s no better way to find things out than through the pages of a book. Even today if some kid asks me what’s the first step to take to become a doctor, I answer, “Read, read, read.”
Sanjay Gupta (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Turks teach women that they have no souls, and are unworthy to enter paradise. The French would persuade them that they have no intellects, and are not made to engage in mental labors, and to tread the paths of art and science.”
Charles Fourier (1772–1837) said by 1837 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“During that period von Bertalanffy as a young scholar was not only interested in biology and philosophy of science. He was also interested in history and generally in humanities. He studied Oswald Spengler's theory of history and has written a paper on this topic. His interest in Spengler's theory of history anticipated von Bertalanffy's lifelong attempts to reconcile sciences with humanities.”
Thaddus E. Weckowicz (1919–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In modern science, in fact, let alone modern systems theory, cause disappears wherever you have a very complex system of interrelated elements.”
Walter F. Buckley (1921–2006) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Walter F. Buckley (1970) in: Cry California. Vol 6. p. 28.
“The search for meaning is not limited to science: it is constant and continuous--all of us engage in it during all our waking hours the search continues even in our dreams. There are many ways of finding meaning, and there are no absolute boundaries separating them.”
Ervin László (1932–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The most difficult thing to reconcile is science and religion … And so we created a”
Chris Carter (screenwriter) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "A close encounter with Chris Carter" at Salon (28 April 2000)
“Information retrieval is now an accepted part of the new discipline of information science and technology... I have concentrated on the field with which I am most familiar, the problems of bibliographic description and subject analysis.”
Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: B.C. Vickery (1970) Techniques of information retrieval, London: Butterworth. p. v; As cited in: Lyn Robinson and David Bawden (2011) "Brian Vickery and the foundations of information science".
“Information science is concerned with every aspect of the chain of information transfer activities, but the heart of its interest is information search.”
Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: B.C. Vickery (1997) "Metatheory and information science," Journal of Documentation, 53(5), p. 460.
“Information science” emerges (a) when conceptual explorations, not directed towards immediate practical or technical ends, begin to take place, and (b) they are seen to be concerned with a definable area of interest [that of facilitating the transmission of information between people].”
Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 220; As cited in: Lyn Robinson and David Bawden (2011).
“In its whole sweep, therefore, information work includes: science, that helps us to understand our problems; technology, that helps us to solve them; and the art of participating in each delicate interpersonal communication into which we are invited. The fusion of these three aspects of the craft creates a “triple glow” of optimal service.”
Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“… it is most important – particularly in an immature field like information science - to accept that all modes of study and all analytical methods can make useful contributions, and not to denigrate [qualitative] models as “just description”
Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 331; As cited in: Lyn Robinson and David Bawden (2011).
“The field of study [of information science] is so wide and varied; research is necessarily restricted to accessible areas; it often (and rightly) has the practical aim of providing guidance in a specific situation, rather than searching for generalisations; the isolation of variables for investigation is often so difficult; rarely can confirmatory experiments be undertaken.”
Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Information science is identified as... the study of the communication of information in society. This meaning is only beginning to emerge from its practical background, the social activity of facilitating information transfer.”
Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 1; As cited in: Lyn Robinson and David Bawden (2011).
“It is with this whole cycle [between generation and use of information] that information science is now concerned.”
Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 9; As cited in: Lyn Robinson and David Bawden (2011).
“Information systems, at any level of complexity above that of speech, necessarily involve technologies such as printing, telecommunications, or computers. However, to information science technical potentialities and constraints are of importance mainly in that they affect the social relations concerned.”
Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The principles of information science apply, whatever the medium of transfer.”
Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bertie Brookes and I shared a common view that, beyond the practical activities of information provision, there could be discerned a more general science of information. He tended towards a mathematical formulation of this: I was more interested in its social aspects.”
Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Varied views were put forward as to the content and priorities of information science, though there was general agreement that its central topics should be information organisation, dissemination and retrieval.”
Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Theoretical research in information science is still marked by a tendency to play safe... it is still marked by timidity. It could now afford to be more boldly speculative, intellectually exciting and therefore more attractive to intelligent and ambitious students." Have things changed?”
Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 25; As cited in: Lyn Robinson and David Bawden (2011).
“[Information] science and technology are now so closely linked that analysis and experiment lead quickly on to invention, to the introduction of new channels (and documents).”
Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The analogy with bibliographic classifications and thesauri is obvious... despite the differences, it is to be regretted that 'ontological engineers' make little or no reference to work in information science. As a consequence, they do not appear to draw at all on the rich experience of constructing knowledge schedules … or... developing concept lexicons.”
Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 284; As cited in: Lyn Robinson and David Bawden (2011).
“Motion study is the science of eliminating wastefulness resulting from using unnecessary, ill-directed, and inefficient motions. The aim of motion study is to find and perpetuate the scheme of least waste methods of labor.”
Frank Bunker Gilbreth (1868–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No one really starts anything new, Mrs Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.”
Daniel Keyes (1927–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a rigorous science, just waiting to be recognized and developed, which encompasses the whole of 'the software problem,' as defined, including the hardware, software, languages, devices, logic, data, knowledge, users, users, and effectiveness, etc. for end-users, providers, enablers, commissioners, and sponsors, alike.”
Douglas T. Ross (1929–2007) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: D.T. Ross (1989) "Appendix B: Understanding: The Key to Software" in: Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council Scaling Up: A Research Agenda for Software Engineering. p. 66 (cited on p. 3…
“Two developments of the past four decades played crucial roles in establishing a research agenda for the study of map symbolization and design. The first was Arthur H. Robinson's dissertation (published as The Look of Maps in 1952), with its call for objective research, and the second was the adoption in the 1970s of a paradigm of cartography as communication science.”
Alan MacEachren (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Geographers are wont to boast of their subject as a very old one, extending, even as an organized science, far back to antiquity. But often when geographers in this country discuss the nature of their subject, whether in symposia or in published articles, one has the impression that geography was founded by a group of American scholars at the beginning of the twentieth century.”
Richard Hartshorne (1899–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Although the roots of geography, as a field of study, reach back to Classical Antiquity... its establishment as a modern science was essentially the work of the century from 1750 to 1850. The second half of this period, the time of Humboldt and Ritter, is commonly spoken of as the "classical period" of geography.”
Richard Hartshorne (1899–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science is... in the broadest sense of organized, objective knowledge.”
Richard Hartshorne (1899–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No science is more worthy of cultivation and encouragement than that which, calculating time by the aid of Astronomy, adjusts the results of observations thus obtained to the ordinary use and instruction of man.”
Elias Hiam Lindo (1783–1865) first seen 1838 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Jewish Calendar for Sixty-Four Years (1838)
“Educational technique needs a philosophy, which is a matter of faith rather than of science.”
Hans Freudenthal (1905–1990) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hans Freudenthal (1977) Weeding and Sowing: Preface to a Science of Mathematical Education. p. 33
“Of course I don't want the old religious dope. But I don't want just the new science dope either. I want the truth.”
Olaf Stapledon (1886–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“System engineering is the art and science of creating effective systems, using whole system, whole life principles.”
Derek Hitchins (born 1935) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Derek Hitchins (1995) cited in: Herbert Negele (2000) Systems engineering--a key to competitive advantage for all industries. p,166
“Economics is a young science, and there is still much to be learned. Economists sometimes disagree because they have different hunches about the validity of alternative theories or about the size of important parameters that measure how economic variables are related.”
Greg Mankiw (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The moral hero, guided as he or she is by the ethical experience, who carves out an adventurous path is akin to the discoverer who brings order into the scattered elements of a science or the artist who composes a piece of music or designs buildings.”
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Although science is well qualified to make us progressively comprehend something of the world around us and of the life within us, it is neither able nor called upon to pronounce a judgment regarding the spiritual goal of human life and thus to provide us with ethical guidance.”
Muhammad Asad (1900–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world can no longer accept, the world can no longer accept that basic education is enough. Why do leaders accept that for children in developing countries, only basic literacy is sufficient, when their own children do homework in Algebra, Mathematics, Science and Physics?”
Malala Yousafzai (born 1997) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One day, you're going to learn something that can't be explained with science. And when that happens, your life's going to change in ways you can't imagine.”
Nicholas Sparks (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Writing wasn't easy for her. It wasn't like arithmetic, not like a column of numbers to be added or subtracted from the top of the blackboard to the bottom, neat and organized; or science, figuring out the why of things.”
Patricia Reilly Giff (1935–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The dictionary defines "economics" as "a social science concerned chiefly with description and analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services." Here is another definition of economics which I think is more helpful in explaining how economics relates to software engineering.”
Barry Boehm (1935–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“First let us rid our minds of the fallacy that guerrilla war is a wholly distinct thing in kind from regular war. It is nothing of the sort. War is a science whose fundamental principles are constant however wide or numerous the variations....”
Robert Erskine Childers (1870–1922) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: War and the Arme Blanche", by Erskine Childers, Edward Arnold, (London, 1910), p. 231.
“Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They thrive on servility and shrink before independence. They feed upon worship as kings do upon flattery. That is why the cry of gods at all times is "Worship us or we perish.”
Chapman Cohen (1868–1954) said by 1954 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pamphlet The Devil, quoted in Gordon Stein An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism (Prometheus Books, 1980), p. 258.
“Exobiology - a curious development in view of the fact that this "science" has yet to demonstrate that its subject matter exists!”
George Gaylord Simpson (1902–1984) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Simpson in: Elie Alexis Shneour (1966) Extraterrestrial Life: An Anthology and Bibliography. p. 269
“Predictive social science does not exist. Indeed, it seems to me that it cannot ever exist, since the behaviour to be predicted reacts to and is partly shaped by the words used by the predictors.”
William H. McNeill (1917–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Social science is itself part of the social experience it seeks to interpret and explain.”
William H. McNeill (1917–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.”
Jacque Fresco (1916–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The school had been designated a "Science Academy" and attracted many sponsors: charities, eminent scientists, and a global oil company. The academy logo proclaimed: Together. Inspired. No one seemed quite sure what it meant.”
Simon Mayo (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“a theory that has seven facts for it and three facts against it is not in good shape, and it would not be considered so in any developed science.”
Paul E. Meehl (1920–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At the heart of the matter... our technologies have become more powerful than our theories... We can do with technology what we cannot do with science.”
Paul Cilliers (1956–2011) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 1-2; as cited by David Byrne (1999) in: "Complexity and Postmodernism: Book Review" in JASSS Vol 2 (2)
“Evolutionary Darwinists need to understand we are taking the dinosaurs back. This is a battle cry to recognize the science in the revealed truth of God.”
Ken Ham (born 1951) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "In Evolution Debate, Creationists Are Breaking New Ground; Museum Dedicated to Biblical Interpretation Of the World Is Being Built Near Cincinnati" (25 September 2005), by Michael Powell, The Washington Po…
“I believe there is a gross misrepresentation in our culture. We're seeing people being indoctrinated to believe that Creationists can't be scientists. I believe it's all a part of secularists hijacking the word 'science'.”