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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.
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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
Quote:- Science is not a collection of facts. Nor is science something that happens in the laboratory. Science happens in the head. It's a flight of imagination beyond the constraints of ordinary perception. Columbus chapter -The Virgin and the Mousetrap
Author:- Chet Raymo
Category:- science
Quote:- Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.
Author:- Stephen Jay Gould
Category:- science
Quote:- Science is not a matter of belief. Science does not care whether you believe in it or not. Science will continue to do what science will do, free from morality, free from ethical concerns, and most of all, free from the petty worry that it will not be believed. Belief has shaped the history of human accomplishment—we believe we can, and so we do—but belief has never changed the natural world. The mountain does not vanish because we believe it should. The unicorn does not appear because we believe it will.
Into the Drowning Deep
Author:- Mira Grant
Category:- science
Quote:- Science is not a neutral or innocent commodity which can be employed as a convenience by people wishing to partake only of the West's material power. Rather it is spiritually corrosive, burning away ancient authorities and traditions. It cannot really co-exist with anything.
Understanding the Present: An Alternative History of Science
Author:- Bryan Appleyard
Category:- science
Quote:- Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.
Author:- Bill Gaede
Category:- science
Quote:- Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Author:- Carl Sagan
Category:- science,philosophy
Quote:- Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light‐years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or acts of exemplary selfless courage such as those of Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr. The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Author:- Carl Sagan
Category:- science
Quote:- Science is not separate from politics. As much as I would like it to be a pure thing, existing only in some intellectual realm unsullied by human struggle, it will always be entangled with the world we live in.
The Tropic of Serpents
Author:- Marie Brennan
Category:- science
Quote:- Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.
Author:- Thomas Huxley
Category:- science