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The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ..., the most dangerous adversaries of science.

[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.

Stop worrying about the lousy science, and how me the money already.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

All we can do is search for the falsity content in our best theory.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.

Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

I love watching, I love getting all the science about food. That's one of my favorite things.

Science is interesting, and if you don't agree, you can fvck off.

I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.

I think one of the reasons I love science fiction so much is that it's - when it's ideally done right, it's a reflection on ourselves.

Without a commitment to science and rationality in its proper domain, there can be no solution to the problems that engulf us. Still, the Yahoos never rest.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.

... the atlas is a manifold. This is a typical mathematician's use of the word "is", and should not be confused with the normal use.

Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too farfetched.

It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.