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Science

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. – Isaac Asimov

Science is but an image of the truth. – Francis Bacon

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. – Jules Verne

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know. – Richard Dawkins

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. – John Ruskin

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. – Isaac Newton

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science. – E. O. Wilson

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in. – Stephen Hawking

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science. – James Madison

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics. – Stephen Hawking

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line. – Stephen Hawking

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science. – Stephen Hawking

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. – Samuel Butler

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news. – Richard Dawkins

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide. – Friedrich August von Hayek

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. – John Burroughs

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense. – Thomas Huxley

The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions. – Woodrow Wilson

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth. – Thomas Huxley

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah. – Thomas Huxley