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“Science, it is usually believed, helps us to build a picture of objective reality – the world 'out there'. With the advent of the quantum theory, that very reality appears to have crumbled, to be replaced by something so revolutionary and bizarre that its consequences have not yet been properly faced.”
Paul Davies (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That the universe has organized its own self-awareness – is for me powerful evidence that there is 'something going on' behind it all. The impression of design is overwhelming. Science may explain all the processes whereby the universe evolves its own destiny, but that still leaves room for there to be a meaning behind existence.”
Paul Davies (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world is but an assembly of present, past, and possible sensations; the affair of science is to analyze and co-ordinate them by separating their accidental from their constant relations.”
Alfred Binet (1857–1911) said by 1911 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Other sciences are suited to the various conditions of life: some, more necessary to some; other, to others. But this [science of self-knowledge] equally concerns every one.”
John Mason (1706–1763) said by 1763 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If poetry is emotion recollected in tranquility, then science is tranquility recollected in emotion: a struggle to think carefully in the swirl of passionate curiosity.”
George Musser (born 1965) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Spooky Action at a Distance (2015), Ch. 4 : The Great Debate
“Jimmy O’Brien brought the manufacture of “Democracies” down to an exact science, and reduced the cost of production so as to bring it within the reach of all. Any man with $50 can now have a “Democracy” of his own. p. 58”
George Washington Plunkitt (1842–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s going too far! My God, look what has already happened. The scientists make fantastic new discoveries which are immediately taken over by a group, almost a breed of men, who always know what’s best for the rest of us. Science learns how to split the atom, and they immediately know that the best thing to do with that new knowledge is to blow up Hiroshima!”
Jack Finney (1911–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Much of what now passes for social science is concerned not to explain human differences but to explain them away.”
John Hirst (1942–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Marxists profess to reject religion in favor of science, but they cherish a belief that the external universe is evolving with reliable, if not divine, necessity in exactly the direction in which they want to go.”
Max Eastman (1883–1969) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Marxism: Is It Science? (1940)
“Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.”
Victor J. Stenger (1935–2014) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason (2009), 59. As attributed on a web page using the quote as a title at web site of Richard Dawkins Foundation.
“Science is not going to change its commitment to the truth. We can only hope religion changes its commitment to nonsense.”
Victor J. Stenger (1935–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Enter the Green New Deal. It endorses the science. ... We’re not talking about a bit less emissions; we're talking about a phaseout of emissions by 2050 in order to have a fighting chance to hold Earth’s temperature rise to 1.5-degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level, a rise that should not in any way be construed as “safe,” just potentially not catastrophic.”
Jeffrey Sachs (born 1954) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Green New Deal isn't outlandish — it's a necessity, The Hill, (4 March 2019)
“Egypt has an exceptional place in the Islamic world. This geography, which has been the cradle of civilizations in history, has also raised important people in Islamic history and hosted centers of science. Egypt maintains its special position and importance for the future of the Middle East. Egypt's internal peace and stability are of critical importance for this geography.”
Fethullah Gülen (1941–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Under complexity science, the more interacting factors, the more unpredictable and irregular the outcome. To be succinct, the greater the complexity, the greater the unpredictability.”
L. K. Samuels (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every system that has existed emerged somehow, from somewhere, at some point. Complexity science emphasizes the study of how systems evolve through their disorganized parts into an organized whole.”
L. K. Samuels (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Each of us must live within that reality. Forecasting is not an exact science—the future leaves no footprints. We cannot predict the future because we cannot precisely measure the present. Quantum mechanics proved that. We live in a probability-based world. We all know that the sun will rise in the morning. But even that’s just a high probability. Nothing is assured—nothing.”
L. K. Samuels (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Although there are as many ‘new institutionalisms’ as there are social science disciplines, this book is about just one of them, the one that has made its mark on organisation theory, especially that branch most closely associated with sociology.”
Paul DiMaggio (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The key to success for Sony, and to everything in Business, Science, and Technology for that matter, is never to follow the others. We bet the company on that basic technology (the Trinitron TV), and in 23 years nobody has been able to match it.”
Masaru Ibuka (1908–1997) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Masaru Ibuka in: B. Schlender. "China Really is on the Move," Fortune, February 24, 1992. p. 23.
“Is marketing management an art or a science? Some marketing observers maintain that good marketing is more of an art and does not lend itself to rigorous analysis and deliberation. Others strongly disagree and contend that marketing management is a highly disciplined enterprise that has much in common with other business disciplines.”
Philip Kotler (born 1931) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Philip Kotler, Kevin Lane Keller, Mairead Brady, Malcolm Goodman & Torben Hansen. (2009). Marketing Management. p. 819
Also quoted by: Kevin Lane Keller
“The fact that these principles, collected from the writings of half a dozen different people, many of whom made no attempt to correlate their work with others, can be presented in a coherent and logical pattern is in itself strong evidence that there is a common element in all experience of the conduct of social groups, that a true science of administration is ultimately possible.”
Lyndall Urwick (1891–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I fight against the ‘choice’ vs. born that way.I studied the science being genetic, or hormonal. Either way, it’s an abberation”
Katrina Pierson (born 1976) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter, March 1, 2012
“Administration has to do with getting things done; with the accomplishment of defined objectives. The science of administration is thus the system of knowledge whereby men may understand relationships, predict results, and influence outcomes in any situation where men are organized at work together for a common purpose.”
Luther H. Gulick (1892–1993) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 189; cited in: Marshall W. Meyer (1985), Limits to Bureaucratic Growth, p. 18
“[W]illingness to admit ignorance... made modern science more dynamic, supple and inquisitive than... previous tradition[s].”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mere observations... are not knowledge. ...[T]o understand the universe, we need ...theories. Earlier traditions usually formulated... theories... [as] stories. Modern science uses mathematics.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Throughout most of history, mathematics was an esoteric field that even educated people rarely studied seriously. In medieval Europe, logic, grammar and rhetoric formed the educational core... [M]athematics seldom went beyond simple arithmetic and geometry. ...The undisputed monarch of all science was theology.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Money has been essential both for building empires and for promoting science. Neither modern armies nor university laboratories can be sustained without banks.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the early twenty-first century, perhaps the most important artistic genre is science fiction. Very few people read the latest articles in the fields of machine learning or genetic engineering. Instead, movies such as The Matrix and Her and TV series such as Westworld and Black Mirror shape how people understand the most important technological, social and economic developments of our time.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]he richest person in the US is giving billions... to candidates in exchange for... broadening the rights of AIs. ...This is no longer a science fiction scenario.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The whole of science... is a self-correcting mechanism. ...[S]cientific journals publish ...corrections to previous publications.., to past mistakes or past lacuna.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Organizational change is a set of behavioral science-based theories, values, strategies, and techniques aimed at the planned change of the organizational work setting for the purpose of enhancing individual development and improving organizational performance, through the alteration of organizational members' on-the-job behaviors.”
Jerry I. Porras (born 1938) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jerry I. Porras and Peter J. Robertson (1992). "Organisational development: Theory, practice and research", in: M. Dunnette, L. Hough (Eds), Consulting Psychologist Press, Palo Alto, p. 723
“Modern science was born in the period beginning with Copernicus's work De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (1543) and ending with Newton's Philosophia Naturalis Philosophiae Mathematica.”
Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis (1892–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[The Hawthorne studies was] perhaps the first major social science experiment... and we feel that continued efforts in this direction will yield rich returns in the development of the social sciences.”
William Foote Whyte (1914–2000) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: William Foote Whyte (1946), Industry and Society, New York. p. v-vi; Cited in: Richard Gillespie (1993), Manufacturing Knowledge: A History of the Hawthorne Experiments. p. 255
“Resist the temptation to use special effects. Think about science fiction movies with lots of special effects: If you notice that special effects are special effects, they will fail.”
Stephen Kosslyn (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The principal way that cognitive science can contribute to epistemology, I claim, is to identify basic belief-forming, or problem-solving processes. Once identified, these processes would be examined by primary epistemology according to the evaluative dimensions and standards adduced in Part I.”
Alvin Goldman (1938–2024) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alvin Goldman (1986), Epistemology and Cognition. p. 81
“For such fields deep historical studies can have considerable contemporary relevance and hence fall within the boundaries of the field itself. Weber and Durkheim are still studied by sociologists, just as Adam Smith and Ricardo are still studied by economists, whereas Galilean and Newtonian studies are not part of physics but of an altogether different discipline, the history of science.”
Kurt Danziger (1926–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Newtonian studies are not part of physics but belong to an altogether different discipline, the history of science.”
Kurt Danziger (1926–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Common sense is the very antipodes of science.”
Edward B. Titchener (1867–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Edward B. Titchener, Systematic Psychology: Prolegomena (1972), p. 48
“The concept of "niche," initially borrowed by biologists from early social science, plays a central role in ecological theory... The niche... consists of all those combinations of resource levels at which the population can survive and reproduce itself.”
Michael T. Hannan (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Current Approaches to Management Theory and Science”
Harold Koontz (1909–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The dominance of science in discussions of masculinity thus reflects the position of masculinity (or specific masculinities) in the social relations of gender.”
Raewyn Connell (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Management is a distinct process consisting of planning, organising, actuating and controlling; utilising in each both science and art, and followed in order to accomplish pre-determined objectives.”
George R. Terry (1909–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As cited in: S.P. Singh (2003), Planning And Management For Rural Development, p. 8
“As a subfield, public administration first appeared separately in the annual listing of doctoral dissertations in the American Political Science Review in 1936.”
Mary E. Guy wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Applied psychology can, therefore, speak the language of an exact science ill its own field, independent of economic opinions and debatable partisan interests.”
Hugo Münsterberg (1863–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.”
R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: R. G. Collingwood (1937), as cited in: Patrick Suppes (1973), Logic, methodology and philosophy of science: Proceedings.
“For Bréal, semantics was the science the subject matter of which was study of the cause and structure of the processes of changes in meanings of words: expansion and contraction of meanings, transfer of meanings, elevation and degradation of their value, etc.”
Adam Schaff (1913–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science and ideology are closely connected to each other, in spite of those pedants who would like to separate them. In any case, since social praxis, which produces and promotes the develópment of language, is the common basis for both the relatively objective knowledge of the world, and for attitudes of evaluation, a genetic link exists.”
Adam Schaff (1913–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My intention was to give a general outline, to sketch a general division and, as it were, a provisional plan of a domain that has not been studied so far and which should be the result of work for many generations of linguists. The reader is therefore requested to consider this book a simple introduction to the science which I propose to call semantics.”
Michel Bréal (1832–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 9 ; as cited in: Schaff (1962:3).
“In that second part we propose to investigate how it happens that words, once created and endowed with a certain meaning, extend that meaning or contract it, transfer it from one group of notions on to another, raise its value or lower it, in a word — bring about changes. It is this second part that constitutes semantics, i.e. science of meaning.”
Michel Bréal (1832–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 99 ; as cited in: Schaff (1962:4).
“The potential conflict inherent in every word, and finding expression in the fact that the use of every word is an individual embodiment of a general concept, is the focal point of semantics understood as a part of linguistics — that is as a science of the meanings of words and the history of such meanings”
Witold Doroszewski (1899–1976) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Witold Doroszewski, Z zagadiiien leksykografii polskiej [Selected Problems of Polish Lexicography], Warszawa 1954, p. 93; as cited in Schaff (1962;6).
“[ Semantics can be defined as] the science of the meanings of words, [the central issue of which is] the problem of the relationship between words and designata.”
Witold Doroszewski (1899–1976) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As cited in Schaff (1962;6).