„It ain't always rocket science, sometimes a door is just a door.“

„Once a sage asked why scholars always flock to the doors of the rich, whilst the rich are not inclined to call at the doors of scholars. "The scholars" he answered, "are well aware of the use of money, but the rich are ignorant of the nobility of science."“

—  Al-Biruni Persian scholar and polymath 973 - 1048

Quoted in: A.L. Mackay Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (London 1994).

„True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.“

—  Pope Pius XII 260th Pope of the Catholic Church 1876 - 1958

address http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius12/P12EXIST.HTM to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 22 November 1951
quoted in Time, 3 December 1951
quoted by Dan Brown, Angels and Demons, page 44

„The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set some limit on infinite error.“

—  Bertolt Brecht, Leben des Galilei

Quelle: Life of Galileo (1939)

„Over the door of his room he caused this sentence to be inscribed: "lnnocuex vivito--- Numen Adest!" He always entertained veneration and admiration for his Creator, and endeavoured to trace his science to its Author. "Tu decus omne tuis, postquam te fata tulere." (Virgilio)“

—  Carl Linnaeus Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist 1707 - 1778

„It is the great beauty of our science, chemistry, that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead of exhausting the subjects of research, opens the doors to further and more abundant knowledge, overflowing with beauty and utility.“

—  Michael Faraday English scientist 1791 - 1867

Experimental Researches in Electricity, Vol. 2 (1834) p. 257 http://books.google.com/books?id=XuITAAAAQAAJ&vq=257&pg=PA257

„Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong.“

—  E.M. Forster English novelist 1879 - 1970

Letter 231, to W. J. H. Sprott, 28 June 1923
Selected Letters (1983-1985)

„Religion is not an exact science. Sometimes, of course, neither is science.“

—  Terry Pratchett, buch Nation

Quelle: Nation

„This is not rocket science. When a kid who has never killed anyone in his life goes on a rampage and looks like the Terminator, he's a video gamer.“

—  Jack Thompson (attorney) American activist and disbarred attorney 1951

[2007-04-20, Were video games to blame for massacre?, Winda Benedetti, MSNBC, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18220228/, 2014-11-18]

„This is an exercise in fictional science, or science fiction, if you like that better. Not for amusement: science fiction in the service of science. Or just science, if you agree that fiction is a part of it, always was, and always will be as long as our brains are only miniscule fragments of the universe, much too small to hold all the facts of the world but not too idle to speculate about them.“

—  Valentino Braitenberg Italian-Austrian neuroscientist 1926 - 2011

Quelle: Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology (1984), p. 1

„Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears the watchword “scientific objectivity” and of emerging at another door which looks out upon a variety of projects for changing, renovating, or revolutionizing society. In consequence, we feel the need of a more explicit account of how the student of society passes from facts to values or statements of policy.“

—  Richard M. Weaver American scholar 1910 - 1963

“Concealed Rhetoric in Scientistic Sociology,” p. 139.
Language is Sermonic (1970)

„Guilford thought he knew what science was. It was nothing more than curiosity…tempered by humility, disciplined with patience.
Science meant looking—a special kind of looking. Looking especially hard at the things you didn’t understand. Looking at the stars, say, and not fearing them, not worshiping them, just asking questions, finding the question that would unlock the door to the next question and the question beyond that.“

—  Robert Charles Wilson, buch Darwinia

Prologue (pp. 10-11)
Darwinia (1998)

„I have always loved science museums in particular—the interactive hands-on museums ... They just exude creativity.“

—  Kathryn D. Sullivan American geologist and NASA astronaut 1951

Kathryn D. Sullivan (2020) cited in " What We Lose When We Lose Museums https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/education/what-we-lose-when-we-lose-museums" on IEEE Spectrum, 9 November 2020.

„Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is, like grace and beauty in the body, which charm at first sight, and lead on to further intimacy and friendship, opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.“

—  Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman 1533 - 1592

Attributed

„Science has fairly turned us out of our comfortable little anthropomorphic notion of things into the great out-of-doors of the universe. We must and will get used to the chill, yea, to the cosmic chill, if need be. Our religious instincts will be all the hardier for it.“

—  John Burroughs American naturalist and essayist 1837 - 1921

Time and Change, p. 2 (1912)

„It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.“

—  Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Dutch physical and organic chemist 1852 - 1911

„Science doesn't always go forwards. It's a bit like doing a Rubik's cube. You sometimes have to make more of a mess with a Rubik's cube before you can get it to go right.“

—  Jocelyn Bell Burnell British scientist 1943

Beautiful Minds (2010)
Kontext: Science doesn't always go forwards. It's a bit like doing a Rubik's cube. You sometimes have to make more of a mess with a Rubik's cube before you can get it to go right. You build up this picture of what there is and you believe it to be true and you work with this picture and you refine it but sometimes you have to abandon the picture. Sometimes you discover the picture you thought you had, that everybody thought we had, actually turns out to be wrong.

„There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.“

—  Anton Chekhov Russian dramatist, author and physician 1860 - 1904

„Just as a new scientific discovery manifests sometimes that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.“

—  Northrop Frye Canadian literary critic and literary theorist 1912 - 1991

"Quotes", Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957), Mythical Phase: Symbol as Archetype

„No flamboyant phrase, just straightforward science.“

—  Peter Franken American physicist 1928 - 1999

describing Ted Maiman's paper announcing the first operational laser. In an interview http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4612.html by Joan Bromberg on March 8, 1985, at University of Arizona. Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA.
Kontext: It is a fantastic letter. Very understated. He calls it an optical maser, it’s as if a maser was made to run in the optical. No flamboyant phrase, just straightforward science.