Quotes · Skopia

39 quotes

Moreover, in a system of two bodies mutually acting upon each other, since the differences between their centres and the common centre of gravity of both are reciprocally as the bodies, the relative motions of those bodies, whether of approaching to or of receding from that centre, will be equal junong themselves. Therefore since the changes which happen to motions are equal and directed to contrary parts.

Isaac Newton

Principia · 1687

★ 7.3

Economic literature

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Adam Smith

The Wealth of Nations · 1776

★ 3.9

Scientific literature

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Charles Darwin

The Descent of Man · 1871

★ 3.8

Academic journal · Scientific literature

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Albert Einstein

1936

★ 3.8

Academic journal · Scientific literature

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of every day thinking.

Albert Einstein

1936

★ 3.8

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates

370 BC

★ 3.7

Film · Adventure (film) · Drama (film) · Adventure · Drama

In a few hundred years, science has taken us farther in understanding the universe, than religion has in 10,000.

Santosh Patel

Life of Pi · 2012

★ 3.6

Essay

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

Miguel de Unamuno

1913

★ 3.5

Lecture

From religion comes a man's purpose; from science his power to achieve it.

William Henry Bragg

1920

★ 3.5

Magazine · Scientific literature

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Edwin Hubble

The Exploration of Space · 1929

★ 3.5

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

1962

★ 3.5

Scientific literature

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

Stephen Jay Gould

1975

★ 3.5

Essay · Scientific literature

In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent."

Stephen Jay Gould

Evolution as Fact and Theory · 1983

★ 3.5

Scientific literature

There are reverent minds who ceaselessly scan the fields of Nature and the books of Science in search for gaps-gaps which they will fill up with God. As if God lived in gaps?

Henry Drummond

1894

★ 3.5

Historical literature · Scientific literature

As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the the assent of the relevant community. To discover how scientific revolutions are effected, we shall therefore have to examine not only the impact of nature and of logic, but also the techniques of persuasive argumentation effective within the quite special groups that constitute the community of scientists.

Thomas Kuhn

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions · 1962

★ 3.5

Scientific literature

Errors are not in the art, but in the artificers.

Isaac Newton

Principia · 1687

★ 2.4

Letter

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing a new truth or fact.

Charles Darwin

1879

★ 2.1

Speech

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

1940

★ 2.1

Philosophical literature

The great advantage of the mathematical sciences above the moral consists in this, that the ideas of the former, being sensible, are always clear and determinate.

David Hume

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding · 1748

★ 2.0

Travel writing

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

Mark Twain

A Tramp Abroad · 1880

★ 2.0

Essay

The pursuit of scientific truth, detached from the practical interests of everyday life, ought to be treated as sacred by every government.

Albert Einstein

1934

★ 2.0

Film · Adventure (film) · Drama (film) · Adventure · Drama

Science can teach us more about what is out there, but not what is in here.

Gita Patel

Life of Pi · 2012

★ 2.0

Letter

In disputes about natural phenomena one must begin not with the authority of Scriptural passage but with sensory experience and necessary demonstrations. For the Holy Scripture and nature derive equally from the Godhead, the former as the dictation of the Holy Spirit and the latter as the most obedient executrix of God's orders.

Galileo Galilei

1615

★ 1.9

Academic journal · Scientific literature

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

Benjamin Peirce

1870

★ 1.9

Speech

The great tragedy of Science-the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

T.H. Huxley

1870

★ 1.9

Scientific literature

The grand aim of all science [is] to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest possible number of hypotheses or axioms.

Albert Einstein

1948

★ 1.9

Personal journal

Art is meant to disturb, science reassures.

Georges Braque

1952

★ 1.9

Lecture

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

Karl Popper

1957

★ 1.9

Essay

Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

W.H. Auden

1962

★ 1.9

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

Science is whatever we want it to be.

Dr. Spaceman

30 Rock · 2007

★ 1.9

Novel

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

Thomas Love Peacock

1860

★ 1.9

Essay · Scientific literature

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.

T.H. Huxley

1880

★ 1.9

Scientific literature

In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.

Stephen Hawking

A Brief History of Time · 1988

★ 1.9

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Francis Darwin

1914

★ 1.8

Nobel Prize Lecture · Speech

When…we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

John C. Polanyi

1986

★ 1.8

Newspaper

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

Stephen Jay Gould

1990

★ 1.8

Essay · Scientific literature

The priest persuades humble people to endure their hard lot; the politician urges them to rebel against it; and the scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.

Max Perutz

1989

★ 1.7

Scientific literature

We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive.

Antoine Lavoisier

1789

★ 1.0

Scientific literature

Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Henri Poincare

1901

★ 0.9

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