"Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth." (Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth", 1864)
"A mind truly opened to what science has to teach must see that it is a little thing. [...] Pain is simply our intrinsic medical adviser to warn us and stimulate us." (Herbert G Wells, "The Island of Doctor Moreau", 1896)
"Science of to-day - the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow - superstition of to-day." (Charles Fort, "The Book of the Damned", 1919)
"The superstitions of today are the scientific facts of tomorrow." (Hamilton Deane & John L. Balderston, "Dracula", 1927)
"There are no enemies in science, professor, only phenomena to study." (Charles Lederer, "The Thing (from Another World)", 1951)
"Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it." (Stanislaw Lem, "King Globares and the Sages", 1965)
"Science offers a sounder basis on which to formulate systems of thought and ethics." (Michael Moorcock, "Behold the Man", 1967)
"Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their manufacture before we are aware of it." (Gene Wolfe, "Seven American Nights" (1978)
"science: A way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time." (Terry Pratchett, "Wings", 1990)
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