science quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking."
615
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
1191
"I believe that a scientist looking at non-scientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy."
1192
"If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part."
1193
"The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth."
1195
"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune."
68
"It is mildly disconcerting to reflect that the whole of meaningful human history - the development of farming, the creation of towns, the rise of mathematics and writing and science and all the rest - has taken place within an atypical patch of fair weather. Previous interglacials have lasted as little as eight thousand years. Our own has already passed its ten-thousandth anniversary."
231
"Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence—in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement – wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league."
301
"There appears to be a conscience in mankind which severely punishes the man who does not somehow and at some time, at whatever cost to his pride, cease to defend and assert himself, and instead confess himself fallible and human."
353
"Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last."
932
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt."
1194