Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
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Quote:- Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Author:- Carl Sagan
Category:- science
Quote:- Science is about recognizing patterns. [...] Everything depends on the ground rules of the observer: if someone refuses to look at obvious patterns because they consider a pattern should not be there, then they will see nothing but the reflection of their own prejudices.
Who Built the Moon?
Author:- Christopher Knight & Alan Butler
Category:- science
Quote:- Science is all about proving theories and understanding the universe. Science folds everything into neat logical well-explained packages. The fey are magical capricious illogical and unexplainable. Science cannot prove the existence of faeries so naturally we do not exist. That type of nonbelief is fatal to faries.
The Iron King
Author:- Julie Kagawa
Category:- science
Quote:- Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
Author:- Aleister Crowley
Category:- science
Quote:- Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course. Microbiology and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to burn women to death.
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Author:- Carl Sagan
Category:- science
Quote:- Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.Art is a casual pursuit of significance.Let's keep it in perspective.
The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Author:- Vera Nazarian
Category:- science
Quote:- Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.
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Author:- Michael Crichton
Category:- science
Quote:- Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom.
Author:- Carl Sagan
Category:- science
Quote:- Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
Maurice
Author:- E.M. Forster
Category:- science
Quote:- Science is born from this act of humility: not trusting blindly in our past knowledge and our intuition. Not believing what everyone says. Not having absolute faith in the accumulated knowledge of our fathers and grandfathers. We learn nothing if we think we already know the essentials, if we assume that they were written in a book or known by the elders of the tribe. The centuries in which people had faith in what they believed were the centuries in which little new was learned. Had they trusted the knowledge of their fathers, Einstein, Newton, and Copernicus would never have called things into question and would never have been able to move our knowledge forward (259, trsl. Carnell & Segre)
La realtà non è come ci appare: La struttura elementare delle cose
Author:- Carlo Rovelli
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.
Against Method
Author:- Paul Karl Feyerabend
Category:- science
Quote:- Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off.Note: Dawkins was quoting a former editor of New Scientist Magazine, who is as yet unidentified (possibly Jeremy Webb)
Author:- Richard Dawkins
Category:- science
Quote:- science is knowledge, but who defines what that knowledge is?
Author:- Malebo Sephodi
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Science is like the sea, it's vast and endless, dangerous and serene, a place of wonder, so much to be seen.
Author:- Zary Greer Manning
Category:- science
Quote:- Science is man's attempt at naturalizing the supernatural.
Author:- Kierra C.T. Banks
Category:- Life
Quote:- Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.
Imagined Worlds
Author:- Freeman John Dyson
Category:- science
Quote:- Science is no longer science, there is old science, new science, current science and the ever elusive evolving science, current science is current unless it is old science or new science. new science always trumps old science and current science but evolving science trumps them all. That's Science.
Piggy Sense!: Save It for a Rainy Day
Author:- Reed Abbitt Moore
Category:- science