Absurdity Quote by Maria Mitchell

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

— Maria Mitchell

I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.

— Carl Sagan

“Popularity is a mathematical formula based on desirability criteria. High schools are a classic anthropological case study, and getting people to respond in the…

— Eileen Cook

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

— Herbert M. Shelton

“Science, however, is never conducted as a popularity contest, but instead advances through testable, reproducible, and falsifiable theories.”

— Michio Kaku

Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.

— Brian Cox

“Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills.…

— Carl Sagan

The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are…

— James Clerk Maxwell

Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills.…

— Carl Sagan

Science is public, not private, knowledge.

— Robert K. Merton

“Modern-day science is a unique tradition of knowledge, inasmuch as it openly admits collective ignorance regarding the most important questions.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Science is far from the objective and impartial search for incontrovertible truths that nonscientists might imagine. It is, in fact, a social endeavor where…

— Svante Pääbo