Science

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality -- Richard Dawkins

Science is a way to find out things. Sometimes the word "science" is used to refer to the knowledge that is found using the methods of science.

Quotes

• Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.
  • Jacob Bronowski, Science and Human Values (1956)

Simple: Science doesn't copy Nature. It recreates it.

• 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.
  • Charles Darwin, Descent of Man (introduction)

Simple: Those who are foolish say that science cannot solve a problem.

• Obviously something is wrong with the entire argument of "obviousness".
  • Paul Lazarsfeld, about the interpretation of results in social science as obvious, in "The American Soldier — An Expository Review", Public Opinion Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 3, (1949) pp. 377-404, 380

Simple: Something is wrong when people argue about things being obvious.

• To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient truths; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
  • Henri Poincaré

Simple: Both doubting and believing something are equally foolish since one must think of things before accepting them.

Other websites

• Science on Wikipedia