--- title: "12 Science Based Quotes by 11 authors" description: "Browse 12 Science Based quotes by 11 authors. Discover the best Science Based sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16c/ashwani-kumar-ojha-15711_based_science-is-based-on-our-intelligence-238_2384751.jpg" --- > [Science is based on our intelligence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashwani-kumar-ojha/science-is-based-on-our-intelligence/) [Ashwani Kumar Ojha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashwani-kumar-ojha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16c/ashwani-kumar-ojha-15711_based_science-is-based-on-our-intelligence-238_2384751.jpg) > […science-based popular education can have an enormous impact on politics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-phillips/science-based-popular-education-can-have-an-enormous-impact-on/) [Carl Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-phillips/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f2/carl-phillips-44557_education_science-based-popular-education-can-have_1546253.jpg) > [“Science is based not on faith but in skeptism”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/science-is-based-not-on-faith-but-in-skeptism/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e36/anonymous-1_faith_science-is-based-not-on-faith-but-in-ske_320501.jpg) > [“Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-sagan/science-is-based-on-experiment-on-a-willingness-to-challenge-old-2/) [Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-sagan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f9/carl-sagan-160_experiment_science-is-based-on-experiment-on-a-will_645293.jpg) > [People are saying I don't need science, I have everything, but everything is based on science.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rolf-dieter-heuer/people-are-saying-i-don-t-need-science-i-have-everything-but/) [Rolf-Dieter Heuer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rolf-dieter-heuer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4c/rolf-dieter-heuer-36735_based_people-are-saying-i-don-t-need-science-i_1397315.png) > [Thinking is seeing… Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/honor-de-balzac/thinking-is-seeing-every-human-science-is-based-on-deduction-which-is/) [Honore de Balzac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/honor-de-balzac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d7/honor-de-balzac-197_art_thinking-is-seeing-every-human-science-i_2092408.png) > [Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fulton-j-sheen/remember-that-every-science-is-based-upon-an-abstraction-an-2/) [Fulton J. Sheen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fulton-j-sheen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db6/fulton-j-sheen-675_abstraction_remember-that-every-science-is-based-upo_2206347.png) > [Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisa-randall/religion-can-have-psychological-and-social-roles-but-in-terms-of/) [Lisa Randall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisa-randall/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6a/lisa-randall-7318_based_religion-can-have-psychological-and-soci_3195792.png) > [Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-sagan/science-is-based-on-experiment-on-a-willingness-to-challenge-old/) [Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-sagan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/537/carl-sagan-160_challenges_science-is-based-on-experiment-on-a-will_194296.jpg) > [I began my career as a physicist. And in the White House, my buddies were the people from the White House office…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-stiglitz/i-began-my-career-as-a-physicist-and-in-the-white-house-my-buddies/) [Joseph Stiglitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-stiglitz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/279/joseph-stiglitz-1351_house_i-began-my-career-as-a-physicist-and-in_817507.jpg) > [Religion is based upon blind faith supported by no evidence. Science is based upon confidence that results from evidence - and that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-randi/religion-is-based-upon-blind-faith-supported-by-no-evidence-science/) [James Randi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-randi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e0/james-randi-12614_approach_religion-is-based-upon-blind-faith-suppo_231049.jpg) > [“It's a most peculiar psychology—this business of 'Science is based on faith too, so there!' Typically this is said by people who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/it-s-a-most-peculiar-psychology-this-business-of-science-is-based-on/) [Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd9/eliezer-yudkowsky-1207_business_it-s-a-most-peculiar-psychology-this-bus_854229.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science-based/#itemlist", "name": "Science Based Quotes", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Science is based on our intelligence.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ashwani Kumar Ojha" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashwani-kumar-ojha/science-is-based-on-our-intelligence/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": 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And in the White House, my buddies were the people from the White House office of science and technology policy. But a lot of the people were lawyers. They like winning an argument, but science-based, evidence-based reasoning was just sort of not in their framework.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Joseph Stiglitz" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-stiglitz/i-began-my-career-as-a-physicist-and-in-the-white-house-my-buddies/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/279/joseph-stiglitz-1351_house_i-began-my-career-as-a-physicist-and-in_817507.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/279/joseph-stiglitz-1351_house_i-began-my-career-as-a-physicist-and-in_817507.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/279/joseph-stiglitz-1351_house_i-began-my-career-as-a-physicist-and-in_817507.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I began my career as a physicist. 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It's dogma, unchangeable, and unaffected by reality and whatever facts we come upon in the real world.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "James Randi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-randi/religion-is-based-upon-blind-faith-supported-by-no-evidence-science/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e0/james-randi-12614_approach_religion-is-based-upon-blind-faith-suppo_231049.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e0/james-randi-12614_approach_religion-is-based-upon-blind-faith-suppo_231049.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e0/james-randi-12614_approach_religion-is-based-upon-blind-faith-suppo_231049.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Religion is based upon blind faith supported by no evidence. 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