Quotes about science

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"How Easy to See the Future", Natural History magazine (April 1975);
General sources

Works and Days - generally misquoted as "Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)

Source: UnDivided

Source: The Future of an Illusion

Source: The Pleasure of the Text

Source: Mason & Dixon

Source: I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

Source: The War of the End of the World

True Believer

Source: On the Gods and Other Essays

Letter to Phyllis Wright (January 24, 1936), published in Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's Letters to and from Children (Prometheus Books, 2002), p. 129
1930s

3 Minute Wonder, Episode 4
On Nature
Source: The Ricky Gervais Show - First, Second and Third Seasons

Source: Dune

Source: Life of Pi

Variant: It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.
Source: Foundation

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

"Why We Need To Understand Science" in The Skeptical Inquirer Vol. 14, Issue 3 (Spring 1990)
Context: Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. This is central to its success. Science invites us to let the facts in, even when they don’t conform to our preconceptions. It counsels us to carry alternative hypotheses in our heads and see which ones best match the facts. It urges on us a fine balance between no-holds-barred openness to new ideas, however heretical, and the most rigorous skeptical scrutiny of everything — new ideas and established wisdom. We need wide appreciation of this kind of thinking. It works. It’s an essential tool for a democracy in an age of change. Our task is not just to train more scientists but also to deepen public understanding of science.

Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: Next

Source: The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995), Ch. 1 : The Most Precious Thing, p. 12
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Kona, in Ch. 30
Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings (2003)

As quoted in an interview with David Duncan http://www.physics.emory.edu/~weeks/misc/duncan.html <br class="br">Context: Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called &quot;other&quot;, which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.

Source: Dune

Source: The Big Over Easy

Source: The Martian Chronicles

#32
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

Source: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 2, “Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin” (p. 23)

Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Vol I
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)

Source: The World As I See It

Source: The Giver

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Le Coq et l’Arlequin (1918)

Source: The History of Love

Variant: Science only goes so far, then comes God.
- Noah Calhoun
Source: The Notebook

Source: Magonia

"Physics and Reality" in the Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 221, Issue 3 (March 1936), Pages 349-382
1930s
Context: It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher. Why then should it not be the right thing for the physicist to let the philosopher do the philosophizing? Such might indeed be the right thing to do at a time when the physicist believes he has at his disposal a rigid system of fundamental laws which are so well established that waves of doubt can't reach them; but it cannot be right at a time when the very foundations of physics itself have become problematic as they are now. At a time like the present, when experience forces us to seek a newer and more solid foundation, the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of theoretical foundations; for he himself knows best and feels more surely where the shoe pinches. In looking for an new foundation, he must try to make clear in his own mind just how far the concepts which he uses are justified, and are necessities.

"How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" (1978)

Source: Humboldt From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'

Source: V for Vendetta

Source: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)

The Enemies of Reason, "The Irrational Health Service"
The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)

The Twilight Zone, "The Fugitive" (1962).
The Twilight Zone
Variant: Science fiction is the improbable made possible, and fantasy is the impossible made probable.
Context: It is said that science fiction and fantasy are two different things. Science fiction is the improbable made possible, and fantasy is the impossible made probable.

Source: The Book Of Military Quotations

Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: The Eternity Code

Source: The Alexandria Quartet

Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

Source: Dance Dance Dance

Source: Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Context: No one really starts anything new, Mrs Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.

Acceptance speech of the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1952) for The Sea Around Us; also in Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson (1999) edited by Linda Lear, p. 91

Source: Doctors

Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries

"Physics and Reality" in the Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 221, Issue 3 (March 1936)
Variant translation: "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." As it appears in the "Physics and Reality" section of the book "Out of My Later Years" by Albert Einstein (1950)
1930s

Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

33 min 20 sec
Source: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), Heaven and Hell [Episode 4]
Context: There are many hypotheses in science that are wrong. That's perfectly alright; it's the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.
Context: There are many hypotheses in science that are wrong. That's perfectly alright; it's the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny. The worst aspect of the Velikovsky affair is not that many of his ideas were wrong or silly or in gross contradiction to the facts; rather, the worst aspect is that some scientists attempted to suppress Velikovsky's ideas. The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge and there is no place for it in the endeavor of science. We do not know beforehand where fundamental insights will arise from about our mysterious and lovely solar system, and the history of our study of the solar system shows clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.

Source: Infinity

Source: The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

Source: Infinite Jest

Source: Brave New World

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Doris McClellan, Chapter 3, p. 54
Source: 2000s, True Believer (2005)

Source: How To Write Science Fiction