Astronomy Quote by Stanisław Lem

“Science is a cosy, friendly club of specialists who follow their numerous different stars; it is proud and wonderfully productive but never certain and…

— James Lovelock

“Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood—except”

— Carl Sagan

“Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood.”

— Carl Sagan

Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century…

— Carl Sagan

“Pseudoscience is almost always recognizable from a distance, and easy to confirm on close examination. Science is, however, not immune from hubris, and bad…

— K Lee Lerner

“the rigorously impersonal view of science might one day appear as having been a temporarily useful eccentricity rather than the definitively triumphant position which…

— William James

One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an…

— Carl Sagan

[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy personal psychological…

— E. O. Wilson

“And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions of an alchemist, the…

— René Descartes

“Of all the sciences cultivated by mankind, Astronomy is acknowledged to be, and undoubtedly is, the most sublime, the most interesting, and the most…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

— Herbert M. Shelton

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science…

— Carl Sagan