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Quotes About Science

Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.
~ Nnedi Okorafor
Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.
~ Freeman Dyson
The sound of progress is perhaps the sound of plummeting hypotheses.
~ Peter Haggett
It's very useful to have a good grasp of all the big ideas in hard and soft science. A, it gives perspective. B, it gives a way for you to organize and file away experience in your head, so to speak.
~ Charlie Munger
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
~ Simone Weil
If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.
~ Rudolf Virchow
The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God.
~ Pierre-Simon Laplace
Pseudoscience describes theories that sound like science but are actually just made up, like aromatherapy or biorhythms or love.
~ Craig Ferguson
Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.
~ Marshall McLuhan
We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.
~ Colin Powell
What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
~ David Eagleman
I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!" "An exact science?!" "Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three dollars!
~ Charles M. Schulz
I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false
~ Clifford Geertz
Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.
~ Bill Gates
My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without any adequate experimental guidance.
~ Philip Warren Anderson
Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
~ Jamie Zawinski
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.
~ Joseph Campbell
Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.
~ Carl Jung
Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
~ Henri Poincare
Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.
~ Nancy Pearcey
In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Stop worrying about the lousy science, and how me the money already.
~ Rajendra K. Pachauri
From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks
~ H. P. Blavatsky