Accepting Quote by William Hazlitt

There is nothing in science which teaches the origin of anything at all.

— Lord Kelvin

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

— A.C. Grayling

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

— Chauncey Wright

If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance…

— Jerry A. Coyne

All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

— Thomas Carlyle

All sciences originated among the sons of Israel, the reason being the existence of prophecy among them which made their perfection in the sciences…

— Averroes

The necessary precondition for the birth of science as we know it is, it would seem, the diffusion through society of the belief that…

— Lesslie Newbigin

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation,…

— Linus Pauling

Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.

— Karl Popper

The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes - that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and confines itself…

— H. L. Mencken

“It is the place of science only to observe… To seek cause where it may be found, but to realize that there are many…

— Diana Gabaldon