Books Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

“The serious scientific public trusted him implicitly and consequently had no need to read him. If those people were to start getting critical, no…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was,…

— Andrew Hodges

“I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Outside the port, the slashed rock of the unnamed asteroid tumbled and spun in dynamics known only to the gods of chaos mathematics.”

— Dan Simmons

“We live in the era of the scientific savage,” he reflected, “where all the wisdom of science, mathematics and physics are used for the…

— Daniel Immerwahr

“In the twenty-first century fiction might thereby become the most potent force on earth, surpassing even wayward asteroids and natural selection.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Never underestimate the power of a “reasonable-sounding argument”, especially to people who are not scientists.”

— Angelic-Demon

“...and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.”

— W.W. Rouse Ball

When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than the establishment…

— Stephen Jay Gould

It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the historian, not…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

“Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.”

— Thomas Moore

“From a social standpoint the man of science does not exist.”

— W. Somerset Maugham