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Science Quotes
Science taken seriously, and occasionally not.
Most of these quotes come from people genuinely engaged with science, recalling museum trips that sparked early curiosity and admiring mathematics for tackling problems that actually have solutions. For quotes on scientific humor specifically, see Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people love fundamental science.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most great advances have been a collaboration. That is the joy of science for me.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first: 'Is it possible to have an informed government that actually follows the science?' From what I've seen, it's not likely.
- Contributor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cory Doctorow should be too busy for lunch. He's co-editor of, and a prolific contributor to, one of the most influential blogs in the world, Boing Boing. Over the past decade the Canadian-born writer has published 16 books, mostly science fiction novels. He campaigns vigorously on the politics of the digital age.
- Building Block
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was fifteen, my father gave me a first edition copy of Ray Bradbury's magnificent work, 'The Martian Chronicles.' I had read other science fiction by noted authors, but this book was something else altogether.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.
- Change The World
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- Nov 07, 2020
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
- Exterminate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
- Common Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
- Common Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020