“Science is the only religion of mankind.”
Arthur C. Clarke book Childhood's End
Source: Childhood's End
Source: Dune
“Science is the only religion of mankind.”
Arthur C. Clarke book Childhood's End
Source: Childhood's End
Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: There are books that have devastated continents, destroyed thousands. What war hasn’t been a war of fiction? All the religious wars certainly, or the fiction of communism versus the fiction of capitalism – ideas, fictions, shit that people make. They have made a vast impression on the real world. It is the real world. Are thoughts not real? I believe it was Wittgenstein who said a thought is a real event in space and time. I don’t quite agree about the space and time bit, Ludwig, but certainly a real event. It’s only science that cannot consider thought as a real event, and science is not reality. It’s a map of reality, and not a very good one. It’s good, it’s useful, but it has its limits. We have to realise that the map has its edges. One thing that is past the edge is any personal experience. That is why magic is a broader map to me, it includes science. It’s the kind of map we need if we are to survive psychologically in the age that is to come, whatever that is. We need a bigger map because the old one is based on an old universe where not many of us live anymore. We have to understand what we are dealing with here because it is dangerous. It kills people. Art kills.
“Science has only one commandment: contribution.”
Bertolt Brecht book Life of Galileo
Andrea, in Scene 13, p. 122
As translated by Howard Brenton (1980)
Life of Galileo (1939)
Variant: Science knows only one commandment — contribute to science.
“Science is the future of mankind.”
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (1933) French physicist
Quantum Physics: From Basic Concepts to Applications. Honeywell-Nobel Laureate Lecture Series at the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (September 15, 2008), at 1:52 http://www.honeywellscience.com/virtual_lab/default.sps?categoryname=Claude%20Cohen-Tannoudji&videoid=.
“Much of good science — and perhaps all of great science — has its roots in fantasy.”
Edward O. Wilson (1929) American biologist
Source: Letters to a Young Scientist (2013), chapter 5, "The Creative Process", page 69.
Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974) Polish-born British mathematician
"The Scientific Revolution and the Machine"
The Common Sense of Science (1951)
Jerry Coyne (1949) American biologist
" Jeffrey Tayler continues making Salon friendlier to anti-theism https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/jeffrey-tayler-continues-making-salon-friendlier-to-anti-theism/" April 13, 2015
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
This Age of Government by Great Dictators, News of the World, 10 October 1937
Reproduced in The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill, Vol IV, Churchill at Large, Centenary Edition (1976), Library of Imperial History, p. 395. ISBN 0903988453
The 1930s
“The ignorance of science means the enforced ignorance of mankind.”
Karl Pearson book The Grammar of Science
Introductory
The Grammar of Science (1900)