— Richard Baxter English Puritan church leader, poet, and hymn-writer 1615 - 1691
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 36.
— Samuel R. Delany, Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones
Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones (1968), Context: If everything, everything were known, statistical estimates would be unnecessary. The science of probability gives mathematical expression to our ignorance, not to our wisdom.
— Richard Dawkins English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author 1941
The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1996)
— George Gordon Byron, book Manfred
Manfred (1817), Act II, scene iv.
— Galileo Galilei Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer 1564 - 1642
Attributed, As quoted in Building Fluency Through Practice and Performance (2008) by Timothy Rasinski and Lorraine Griffith, p. 64, but in fact a quotation by Roger Bacon: Et harum scientiarum porta et clavis est Mathematica, "And of these sciences the door and key is mathematics", from Bacon's Opus Majus (1267) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UfqcGd8NOFsC&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&dq=%22porta+et+clavis%22+opus+majus&source=bl&ots=nGgt2Lhxqe&sig=88kIPB5EAKAKtm0APk6J5OrS1D0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiU36D2gIbLAhVBWBQKHSW9CKgQ6AEINDAE#v=onepage&q=%22porta%20et%20clavis%22%20opus%20majus&f=false.
— Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
The Descent of Man (1871), Context: It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
volume I, "Introduction", page 3 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=16&itemID=F937.1&viewtype=image
— Karl Pearson English mathematician and biometrician 1857 - 1936
The Grammar of Science (1900), Introductory
— Мустафа Кемаль Ататюрк Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey 1881 - 1938
As quoted in Atatürkçülük, Volume I, General Staff of the Republic of Turkey, Millî Eğitim Basımevi, 1984, p. 283
— Charles Babbage mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer 1791 - 1871
Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of its Causes (1830), p. 3
— Jerry Coyne American biologist 1949
Why Evolution is True (2009), p. 140
— William Hazlitt English writer 1778 - 1830
Burke and the Edinburgh Phrenologists in The Atlas (15 February 1829); reprinted in New Writings by William Hazlitt, William Hazlitt and Percival Presland Howe (ed.), (2nd edition, 1925), p. 117; also reprinted in The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 20: Miscellaneous writings, (J.M. Dent and Sons, 1934), (AMS Press, 1967), p. 201
— Karl Pearson English mathematician and biometrician 1857 - 1936
The Grammar of Science (1900), Introductory
— Richard Feynman American theoretical physicist 1918 - 1988
address " What is Science? http://www.fotuva.org/feynman/what_is_science.html", presented at the fifteenth annual meeting of the National Science Teachers Association, in New York City (1966), published in The Physics Teacher, volume 7, issue 6 (1969), p. 313-320
— Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519
XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
— Colin Wilson author 1931 - 2013
Religion and the Rebel (1957), Context: One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full and adequate picture of the meaning of life. All discussions of 'life' which begin with a description of man's place on a speck of matter in space, in an endless evolutionary scale, are bound to be half-measures, because they leave out most of the experiences which are important to use as human beings.
p. 309
— Leigh Brackett American novelist and screenwriter 1915 - 1978
