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“I get the biggest thrill once in awhile when someone does notice me. I just beam from ear to ear. I went to see my picture, The Creature Walks Among Us it's a science- fiction thriller-and took my children, Cathy and Bobby, along. After the show I stood in front of a very large picture of myself in the lobby -and, you know, not one person knew who I was or said a word.”
Leigh Snowden (1929–1982) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How Leigh Snowden Broke into Movies (June 3, 1956)
“Science and faith cannot go together, because faith presupposes blind belief in something revealed in the past, a kind of legend that still persists today, without criticizing it, without the right to question mysteries and dogmas [...].”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As science has penetrated the atom, we’ve discovered that solid matter consists mainly of empty space. We’ve discovered that inert objects, such as rocks, consist of particles whirling round each other trillions of times a second. Likewise, believers and nonbelievers in God may both be right, just traveling the same circle in opposite directions.”
Robert Lanza (born 1956) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Biocentrism and the Existence of God, Huffington Post, January 3, 2011.
“Although in various other academic fields and area studies, such as race science, postcolonial scholarship has completely deconstructed and exposed the colonial investment in the propagation of certain theories, the field of Indology, at least in present-day Western academic circles, has been very suspicious of these voices being raised against the theory of the Aryan invasions.”
Edwin Bryant (born 1957) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Edwin Bryant: “The Indo-Aryan invasion debate: the politics of a discourse”, WAVES conference, Los Angeles. August 1998, abstract., quoted in Elst, Koenraad (1999). Update on the Aryan invasion debate New Delhi: Aditya …
“Indeed, what is magic but impossible science?”
Michael Swanwick (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She had learned at an early age that it was not how often you were wrong that counted in science, but how often you were right. One startling hit covered a multitude of bad guesses.”
Michael Swanwick (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So true--when people see an absence of women in engineering, science and technology, then it becomes self-reinforcing.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Humility is fundamental in science. I recall during an update meeting with my PhD committee at Duke saying that I thought I would be ready to defend my dissertation in May. The unflappable engineering professor, Aarne Vesilind, said he agreed, but year was I talking about?”
Daniel A. Vallero (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no conflict between science and religion.”
Georges Lemaître (1894–1966) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: New York Times, February 19, 1933
“Science, philosophy, literature and art do not have any value if the ones who are active in these fields keep silence about the executions.”
Taraneh Javanbakht (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The establishment, elaboration and clarifying of our program we leave to science, which in our present society is the business of only a few. But the practical application of our program, and the tactics of the party are the business of all; here all work together.”
Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We will not turn from the old tactics, nor from the old program. Ever advancing with science and economic development, we are what we were and we will remain what we are. Or – the Social Democracy will cease to exist.”
Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science in its amazing conquests, the mind in its almost infinite ways, have only limited, barred, and obstructed their search for a reality which doesn't exist, since everything is real and everything is unreal. What do I care if I fly like a sparrow or a finch if my mind remains that of the sparrow and the finch.”
Aldo Palazzeschi (1885–1974) first seen 1950 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Page 183, "1950
“My father told me that science would be all right, but why didn’t I do it in my spare time and go into medicine, like my brothers ... I differed with him slightly about that. He relented when my brothers came back safely from the war. When I entered high school, he helped me build a chemistry lab in the basement, where I loved to perform long and dangerous experiments.”
Sheldon Lee Glashow (born 1932) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“... science fiction was an important part of my life when I was, like I say, twelve, thirteen, fourteen.”
Sheldon Lee Glashow (born 1932) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science is a social phenomenon, and like every other social phenomenon is limited by the benefit of injury it confers on the community.”
Hermann Rauschning (1887–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The idea of free and unfettered science, unfettered by hypotheses, could only occur in the age of Liberalism. It is absurd.”
Hermann Rauschning (1887–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man, inclined to... a mathematical view.., has... applied this bias to mathematical language, and in former centuries exclusively to the language of logical reasonings: the science arising from this... is theoretical logic.”
L. E. J. Brouwer (1881–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Complexity science is a project aimed at unification, trying to establish principles that are common to all adaptive systems.”
David Krakauer (born 1967) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: David Krakauer, conversation with Manuel Stagars on August 2017.
“I think the history of humanity is the history of our co-evolution with devices and artifacts that make our lives easier. And I think it's now a question from moral philosophy — not for science — to decide how we use them and what it would mean to be enslaved by them, whether we do so willingly or reluctantly and genuinely.”
David Krakauer (born 1967) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: App Intelligence, NPR’s To the Best of Our Knowledge, November 27, 2015
“I have tended to consider Guns, Germs, and Steel to be little more than an ahistorical concoction that combines pop history and science with illogical speculation and political correctness.”
Vox Day (born 1968) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Theodore Beale, It’s hardly Diamond’s first fiction, Vox Popoli, 23 April 2009
“When I was growing up in the 1950s, the twenty-first century was an idea associated with science fiction, not a reality in which I would live. Practical people focus on the next moment and leave the centuries to dreamers. But the truth is that the twenty-first century has turned out to be a very practical concern to me. I will spent a good deal of my life in it.”
George Friedman (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much.”
Gertrude B. Elion (1918–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.”
Frank Chodorov (1887–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Christian .. cannot dismiss the philosophy and science of his society as though they were external to him; they are in him. ... He cannot rid himself of political beliefs and economic customs by rejecting the more or less external institutions; these customs and beliefs have taken up residence in his mind.”
H. Richard Niebuhr (1894–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Perhaps our reservoir of spiritual faith has run out.” “Perhaps it should have run out a long time ago,” I said sternly. “Superstition has taken a terrible toll on our species. Wars...pogroms...resistance to logic and science and medicine...not to mention gathering power in the hands of people like those who run the Pax.”
Dan Simmons (1948–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Abolitionists and Socialists, who, alone have explored the recesses of social science, well understand that they can never establish their Utopia until private property is abolished or equalized. The man without property is theoretically, and, too often, practically, without a single right.”
George Fitzhugh (1806–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The science [of painting], although it is not absolutely necessary, never hurts. It obviates much experimentation by trial and error, but one must, above all, not confuse it with skill. The first can be taught; the second [= skill] must not be, and must even be combatted.. .What will necessarily happen to manual skill is.. if one neglects it, it becomes all the more clumsy and personal.”
Paul Sérusier (1864–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think that science fiction can, by creating extreme situations and settings, draw out the essence of human relationships.”
Makoto Shinkai (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Islamic science came into being from a wedding between the spirit that issued from the Qur'anic revelation and the existing sciences of various civilizations which Islam inherited and which it transmuted through its spiritual power into a new substance, at once different from and continuous with what had existed before it.”
Seyyed Hossein Nasr (born 1933) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Islamic Science. An Illustrated Study, photographs by Ronald Michaud, World of Islam Festival Publishing Company Ltd., London, 1976, p. 9.
“Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering.”
Bran Ferren (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Of course one could claim that the human embryo or fetus is not (yet) a human being, but that's just science-denial. Or one could claim that human beings in early developmental stages don't have dignity but that is a denial that dignity is inherent and that all humans are equal.”
Robert P. George (born 1955) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter post (13 December 2017)
“I model the world as having most of the impact from extreme cases, 'home-runs'. I think that's true in business, science and social impact. If you have good personal fit, your chances of being that extreme case are dramatically better – you climb the ladder, you get to see and do things that other can't, and you get to make unique contributions.”
Holden Karnofsky (born 1981) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an interview with Benjamin Todd, January 2014
“The Government and the people of Trinidad and Tobago acclaim this historic triumph of science and the human will. It is our earnest hope for mankind that while we gain the moon, we shall not lose the world.”
Eric Williams (1911–1981) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Apollo 11 Goodwill Messages, NASA (13 July 1969)
“The whole weight of science is the prima facie evidence against a miracle having occurred.”
John Allen Paulos (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s become somewhat fashionable to say that religion and science are growing together and are no longer incompatible. This convergence is, in my opinion, illusory. In fact, I don’t believe that any attempt to combine these very disparate bodies of ideas can succeed intellectually.”
John Allen Paulos (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That's how it is One day two paintings were hanging, Right opposite each other Really colorful and beautiful the one And the other simple and honest * That simplicity and truth are the characteristics of science and of art. Well, people can not understand that. It was to the tinsel that they gave their favor. (translation from the original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Jozef Israëls (1824–1911) first seen 1876 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A short poem of Israëls, written in his letter from The Hague, 13 Dec. 1876 to art-seller Pilgeram & Lefèvre in London; from collection of Fondation Custodia, Institut Neérlandais Paris, input no. 1971-A 506
“Soap prevented more deaths than penicillin. That’s technology, not science.”
John Lanchester (born 1962) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Case Against Civilization", (18 September 2017).
“In the fields of life there isn't any geometry. Here if whole is taken out from the whole then whole itself remains. Inside one is substance, inside atom is the world. Science cannot find everything and our psychological studies end within the darkness of intellect. This is why no teacher can teach.”
Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science cannot satisfy his curiosity and Man searches for glimpses beyond the Sciences through the magic of emotional and imaginative world, where man feels self-satisfied as if he is near the truth.”
Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here is a list of some of the questions and their short answers (...) The interesting thing is to recognize how totally unavoidable they are, provided you place your confidence in science to provide the answers”
Alexander Rosenberg (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we can't have religion, we need a substitute that is as much like it as science can provide. Enter secular humanism, a doctrine, dare I say, "designed" to do this job. It hasn't worked (...) Scientism recognizes that the ambitions of the secular humanism are unattainable.”
Alexander Rosenberg (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Superstition has caused so much confusion, darkness, and deception. Dogma has been used to tyrannize over the lives of the people. So, this is the time for change and of some transformation based on reason, science, critical thinking, and humanity. People are yearning for freedom and emancipation. Humanism is critical in delivering that change and in the realization of social renewal.”
“Modern science explicitly and emphatically rejects teleology.”
Mordechai Ben-Ari (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The charm of our studies, the enchantment of science, is that, everywhere and always, we can give the justification of our principles and the proof of our discoveries.”
Mordechai Ben-Ari (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is clear today that modern science developed when people stopped debating metaphysical questions about the world and instead concerned themselves with the discovery of laws that were primarily mathematical.”
Mordechai Ben-Ari (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“…On the one end, the abuse is making these young people LGBT. The science for that is completely flimsy. I completely disagree with that idea. On the other side ... children who will eventually identify as LGBT are more likely to be targets of sexual predators. If you think of it that way, it changes our concept of how we need to nurture and care for children who are different. ...”
Charles M. Blow (born 1970) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On LGBT young people being sexually abused in “After Childhood Abuse, 'Times' Columnist Says He Chose Life Over Vengeance” in NPR (2014 Sep 24)
“By Sanskrit is meant the learned language of India - the language of its cultured inhabitants, the language of its religion, its literature and science - not by any means a dead language, but one still spoken and written by educated men by all parts of the country, from Kashmir to Cape Comorin, from Bombay to Calcutta and Madras.”
Monier Monier-Williams (1819–1899) said by 1899 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I invest in people — be it politics or science. It's what I do.”
Jeffrey Epstein (1953–2019) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery By Landon Thomas Jr., New York magazine (October 28, 2002).
“War itself is not a mere science but a more fickle sort of thing, often subject to fate or chance, being an entirely human enterprise...”
Victor Davis Hanson (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source