Accounts Quote by James Jeans

Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.

— Bill Bryson

Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.

— Henry David Thoreau

"Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane.

— Herbert M. Shelton

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

— Richard P. Feynman

Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts

— Richard Feynman

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

— Carl Sagan

I think the scientists have really caught the attention of the people of this country, and of course, they elected representatives by their very…

— Barbara Boxer

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

— George Bernard Shaw

...when doing science (or perhaps when doing anything at all in a society as judgmental as our own), be very careful and very certain…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.

— Leo Szilard