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It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

The shape I'm in, I could donate my body to science fiction.

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent out of my own sense of irresponsibility.

Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science.

There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.

I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.

To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

History is the shank of the social sciences.

A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.

To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science.

The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.

Nature's great book is written in mathematics.

Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.

To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

The time has come when advertising has in some hands reached the status of a science.

[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.