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“There are major issues that people - as taxpayers and voters - will have to make informed decisions on in the near future. They will need to understand the science and the ethical considerations to form their opinions. Some of these are issues that will affect humanity for decades to come.”
“To exclude kids in formal education from science is bad for everybody.”
“Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. It's like, it's very much analogous to trying to do geology without believing in tectonic plates. You're just not gonna get the right answer. Your whole world is just gonna be — a mystery. Instead of an exciting place.”
Bill Nye (born 1955) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bill Nye: Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children on YouTube (23 August 2012)
“If we continue to eschew science ... we are not going to move forward. We will not embrace natural laws. We will not make discoveries. We will not invent and innovate and stay ahead.”
“Please, you don't want to raise a generation of science students who don't understand how we know our place in the cosmos, who don't understand natural law.”
“You don’t need a PhD in climate science to understand what’s going on, that we have overwhelming evidence that the climate is changing. That you cannot tie any one event to that is not the same as doubt about the whole thing.”
“A theory of power has long been the Holy Grail for political science, but the Grail has not been found.”
Mancur Olson (1932–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships (2000), Ch. 1 The Logic of Power
“It is called a “pure” theory of law, because it only describes the law and attempts to eliminate from the object of this description everything that is not strictly law: Its aim is to free the science of law from alien elements. This is the methodological basis of the theory.”
Hans Kelsen (1881–1973) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pure Theory of Law (revised ed., 1960), 1. The “Pure” Theory
“Chemistry is the science of matter and the changes it can undergo. The world of chemistry therefore embraces everything material around us—the stones we stand on, the food we eat, the flesh we are made of, and the silicon we build into computers. There is nothing material beyond the reach of chemistry, be it living or dead, vegetable or mineral, on Earth or in a distant star.”
Peter Atkins (born 1940) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Peter Atkins and Loretta Jones, Chemical Principles: The Quest for Insight, 4th ed. (2008)
“Dark matter cannot be any sort of matter that is known to science.”
Mordehai Milgrom (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“... It was (in part) Gross’s excessive enthusiasm for string theory in the mid-80s that drove me (as an impressionable grad student at Princeton) away from theoretical physics (and into astronomy). String theory may have been a beautiful idea, but it made no predictions that could be tested experimentally in the then-foreseeable future. That’s not science.”
Stacy McGaugh (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To know in the sense of Science is to predict. It is the ability to mathematize, calculate, measure, that allows modern man to build a bridge by predicting the mechanical behavior of the structure. (p. 2)”
Carlo Rubbia (born 1934) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The more science seeks and the more it finds clues to a single Creation being the work of a higher entity. The helix of DNA demonstrates this.”
Carlo Rubbia (born 1934) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.”
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852–1911) said by 1911 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the last 30 years, the prestige of mathematics has declined in all countries. I think that mathematicians are partially to be blamed as well—foremost, Hilbert and Bourbaki—the ones who proclaimed that the goal of their science was investigation of all corollaries of arbitrary systems of axioms.”
Vladimir Arnold (1937–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview translated from the Russian into English and republished in the book Boris A. Khesin; Serge L. Tabachnikov (editors), Arnold: Swimming Against the Tide (2014) Google Books preview pages 4–5.
“Paleoseismology... is science by backhoe. Researchers dig deep, straight-walled ditches and search up and down for signs of shaking.”
Shawna Vogel wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We assume, and rightly that a Russian is just as human after two generations of oppressive totalitarianism as his grandfather was before him. But why, then, does social science proceed as if it were not the case, as if people’s natures are the products of their societies?”
Matt Ridley (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Judges were never very good at science.”
Matt Ridley (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here is the basis of the modern critical biblical science, which treats the documents of Christianity and Judaism according to the same principles of historical investigation which are valid in all other historical domains, particularly in that of the history of the ethnic religions.”
Otto Pfleiderer (1839–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The subject matter of mathematics has increased so rapidly and extensively that there is some element of truth in maintaining that mathematics is not so much a subject as a way of studying any subject, not so much a science as a way of life. We turn, then, from the attempt to characterize the material object of mathematics to an attempt to determine its formal object, i.e., its methodology.”
George Frederick James Temple (1901–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mathematical activity has taken the forms of a science, a philosophy and an art.”
George Frederick James Temple (1901–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Authors who write near the beginnings of science, are, in general the most instructive: they take the reader more along with them, shew him the real difficulties, and, which is a main point, teach him the subject, the way by which they themselves learned it.”
Robert Woodhouse (1773–1827) said by 1827 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You know, my science is limited to the fact that I know that eons ago there was an ice age … I know that for sure. I know that at one time, the Arctic was the tropics. And I guess I wonder what caused that? Was it dinosaur farts? I don’t know.”
Ralph Klein (1942–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no other science where judgements are tested in blood and answered in the servitude of the defeated, where the acknowledged authority is the leader who has won or who instills confidence that he can win.”
Bernard Brodie (military strategist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science proceeds by abstracting what is essential from the accidental details of matter and process.”
F. David Peat (1938–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Quantum theory stresses the irreducible link between observer and observed and the basic holism of all phenomena. Indigenous science also holds that there is no separation between the individual and society, between matter and spirit, between each one of us and the whole of nature.”
F. David Peat (1938–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In modern physics the essential stuff of the universe... exists as relationships and fluctuations... Indigenous science teaches that all that exists is an expression of relationships, alliances, and balances between what... we call energies, powers, or spirits.”
F. David Peat (1938–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those on the side of the Mahdi (pbuh) would always talk about stopping the bloodshed, about love, compassion, freedom, peace, science, arts and aesthetics.”
Adnan Oktar (born 1956) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 16 June 2013.
“The belief that electricity, the fourth of the modern forces, is the stuff of thought has permeated brain science since the late 1700s. ...while the brain was regarded as 'dry', all other organs were conceived as 'wet'. Doubtless the study of brain electricity helped in understanding the internal circuits of the brain, but it solved few problems of brain disease.”
Richard Bergland wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The double-think of modern science—'Molecules shape the body, but electricity shapes the mind'—ends abruptly with the realization that regulatory hormones control both brain and body functions.”
Richard Bergland wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The science of neuroendocrinology—the brain-to-pituitary link that was discerned by [Joe] Hinsey, [George] Wislocki, du Vigneaud, and [Geoffrey] Harris—is dependent upon hormones flowing within nerve axons. This phenomenon, axonal flow, was first noted by Ernst and Barta Scharrer... For many decades it was assumed that axonal flow was always 'down'... away from the brain.”
Richard Bergland wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those at the top in brain science gained their pedestals by knowing more and more about less and less.”
Richard Bergland wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What strategy does the brain use to read itself out? That question, which is central to the unitary nature of conscious experience, remains one of the many unresolved mysteries of the new science of mind.”
Eric Kandel (born 1929) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I continue to explore the science in which I work almost like a child, with naïve joy, curiosity, and amazement.”
Eric Kandel (born 1929) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science may explain aspects of art but it will not replace the inspiration that art evokes...”
Eric Kandel (born 1929) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The science or art of war requires a freedom of thought, and leisure to reflect upon the various incidents that daily occur, which cannot be had where the whole of one's time is engrossed in clerical employments. The time devoted to this employment is not the only injury I feel; but it confines my thoughts as well as engrosses my time. It is like a merchandise of small wares.”
Nathanael Greene (1742–1786) said by 1786 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am merely a seeker after knowledge, taking the world for my province, for it seems all knowledge is interrelated, and each science is dependent to some extent on the others. We study the stars that we may know more about our earth, and herbs that we may know medicine better.”
Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The vice-president and the president of the Confederate States of America grounded their justification of American slavery on the grounds of a fraudulent science and a crazy fundamentalism. No sane person today can regard them as other than pathetic reminders of a society, like Nazi Germany, mentally unbalanced by its commitment to human inequality.”
Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With this, we are introduced to a unique American contribution to political science: dual federalism and dual sovereignty. The states are sovereign within the spheres of the powers that are reserved to them by the Constitution. They are not sovereign in those things that are delegated to the United States as a whole.”
Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Self-love is neither fantasy nor vulgar joke. The totality of the “I,” the inbuilt survival and self-protective trait, is one of the most unshakable syndromes known to psycho-science.”
Tanith Lee (1947–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The General Theory is at once both a book of economic theory and a font of economic prejudices—there are probably few academics in economics and political science who do not have an opinion of it, whether they have read it or not. It has reached the status—which it obtained almost immediately—where the fact of its existence is as important, if not more important, than what it actually says.”
Alan O. Ebenstein (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hayek ripped G. W. F. Hegel in The Counter-Revolution of Science’s third part for his “historicism”—the idea, in Hayek’s terminology, that history moves in set and predictable stages. He considered this idea fatally flawed and societies that were based on it to be unsuccessful, unproductive, and unfree. Historicism denies free will. The future is what we make of it.”
Alan O. Ebenstein (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“History does not show greed of gain as the motive of the great steps in industrial progress. The love of science, the pure delight of mechanical invention, the attainment of some slight personal convenience in labour, and mere chance, play the largest part in the history of industrial improvements. These motives would be as equally operative under state-control as under private enterprise.”
J. A. Hobson (1858–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The word "restraint" implies the asking of an essential question, one that is more important now than ever, and is antithetical both to capitalism and to science as we practice them: Because we can do something, must we do it?”
Fenton Johnson (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.”
Geoffrey West (born 1940) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From: Joao Medeiros. "The city in numbers: An equation that explains urban life," in wired.co.uk/magazine 29 March 2011.
“Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don’t make sense. And that’s not science. That’s just taking notes.”
Geoffrey West (born 1940) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From: Robert Krulwich. "Nature Has A Formula That Tells Us When It's Time To Die," at npr.org, Jan. 22, 2013.
“For the unity of experience is not "discovered", but actively created by organizational means: "philosophers wanted to explain the world, but the main point is it change it" said the greater precursor of organizational science, Karl Marx. The explanation of organizational forms and methods by tektology is directed not to a contemplation of their unity, but to a practical mastery over them.”
Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 61; as cited in: Tektology in: systemspedia.org, 2012.
“Tektology is a universal natural science. It is just being conceived; but since the entire organizational experience of mankind belongs to it, its development should be swift and revolutionary, as it is revolutionary in its nature.”
Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is only one way to purify JNU. Shut down the university for four months, question every student, especially those pursuing courses in political science and sociology who are extending their stay by several years while insulting the nation.”
Subramanian Swamy (born 1939) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the sedition charges against Kanhaiya Kumar and other JNU students, as quoted in "Purify JNU by shutting it for 4 months to weed out jihadists: Swamy", Hindustan Times (23 February 2016)
“Many T.V. channels show astrology. Astrology is not to be confused with astronomy. While astronomy is a science, astrology is pure superstition and humbug. Even a little common sense can tell us that there is no rational connection between the movements of the stars and planets, and whether a person will die at the age of 50 years or 80 years, or whether he will be a doctor or engineer or lawyer.”
Markandey Katju (born 1946) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On astrology, as quoted in "Justice Markandey Katju on the role of media in India", The Hindu (5 November 2011)