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Wednesday 6th of May 2026

Science For modern Europeans, building an empire was a scientific project, while setting up a scientific discipline was an imperial project. Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens © 2016 Kwiple.com
Science For the discipline of science is the only one which gives any assurance that from the same set of facts men will come approximately to the same conclusion. And as the modern world can be civilized only by the effort of innumerable people we have a right to call science the discipline of democracy. Walter Lippmann, Drift and Mastery  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Science The good thing about science is that it is true whether or not you believe in it. Neil deGrasse Tyson © 2017 Kwiple.com
Science If science can do anything, it is precisely to uproot and destroy any such thing  as a “meaning”! And forget about science or academic knowledge as a path “to God” – these are precisely the forces hostile and foreign to God. No one – whether he admits it or not – can doubt in his heart of hearts that this is what the sciences are. Max Weber, “The Scholar's Work” in Charisma and Disenchantment, translated by Damion Searls © 2020 Kwiple.com
Science In turn, the fragmented design of technology reflects its scientific foundation, for science is divided into disciplines that are largely governed by the notion that complex systems can be understood only if they are first broken into their separate component parts. This reductionist bias has also tended to shield basic science from a concern for real-life problems, such as environmental degradation. Barry Commoner, The Closing Circle © 2022 Kwiple.com
Science Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail. Stephen Jay Gould, “No Science Without Fancy, No Art Without Facts” © 2020 Kwiple.com
Science Righly undertood science is the culture under which people  can live forward in the midst of complexity, and trust life not as something given but as something to be shaped. Custom and authority will work in a simple and unchanging civilization, but in our world only those will conquer who can understand. Walter Lippmann, Drift and Mastery  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Science Science begins with a vision. Scientific thought is fed by the capacity to “see” things differently than they have previously been seen. Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Science Science cannot replace politics. When we come to decide on policy, we have to take into account many interests and values, and since there is no scientific way to determine which interests and values are more important, there is no scientific way to decide what we should do. Yuval Harari, Financial Times, February 26, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Science Science is not a democracy; public acclaim is itself no guarantee that any view is the correct one. Henry Gee, The Accidental Species © 2017 Kwiple.com
Science Scientists deliver outcomes favorable to companies, while university research departments court corporate support. Universities and regulators sacrifice full autonomy by signing confidentiality agreements. And academics sometimes double as paid consultants. New York Times, January 2, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Science This is the fundamental difference between the natural sciences and the social sciences; whereas the behavior of material things remains the same whatever men learn about it, the behavior of men is always conditioned by what they know about themselves and the world in which they live. Carl Becker, "The Function of the Social Sciences," in Science and Man, ed. by Ruth N. Anshen © 2022 Kwiple.com
Science education Government-supported early education [in the United States] is funded mainly at the state and local level … and because science courses are the most expensive per student, few schools in relatively poor districts can afford to offer many of them. Students from these districts therefore end up being less prepared for university-level science than are their wealthier peers, many of whom attended well-appointed private schools. Nature, Vol. 537, 22 September 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
 
Scientists During peactime, a scientist belongs to the World, but during wartime he belongs to his his country. Fritz Haber, winner of 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and “father of chemical warfare” © 2020 Kwiple.com