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Science Quotes by Sam Harris
- I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense…
- Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American…
- Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time…
- Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
- The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the…
- We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy…
- Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our…
- The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by…
- For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim to being the…
- There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some…
- Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
More Science Quotes
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov