Information Science Quotes

• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

  "Science, Philosophy, and Religion" (1940).

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• You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

  Daniel Keys Moran

  Data Collection, Thought Provoking, Data Science

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• The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.

  Carly Fiorina

  Data Collection, Goal, Thought Provoking

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• Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

  Kofi Annan

  Education, Knowledge, Information Is Power

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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  Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• We were nearly one of the last to realize that in the age of
  information science the most expensive asset is knowledge.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Age, Information, Lasts

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• Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.168, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

  T. S. Eliot

  Knowledge, Organized Life, Too Much Information

  "Choruses from the Rock" pt. 1 (1934)

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• The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

  Thomas Huxley

  Beauty, Beautiful, Education

  "Biogenesis and Abiogenesis" (1870)

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• Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Wisdom, Knowledge

  "Choruses from the Rock" pt. 1 (1934)

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• In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

  Carl Sagan

  Change, Learning, Humility

  Keynote address at CSICOP conference in 1987. "Do Science and the Bible Conflict?" Book by Judson Poling, p. 30, 2003.

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• I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe.

  Ken Jenkins

  Science, Thinking, Effort

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• The term "informatics" was first defined by Saul Gorn of University of Pennsylvania in 1983 (Gorn, 1983) as computer science plus information science used in conjunction with the name of a discipline such as business administration or biology. It denotes an application of computer science and information science to the management and processing of data, information and knowledge in the named discipline.

  Saul Gorn

  Data, Names, Discipline

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• In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

  Carl Sagan

  Change, Science, Theoretical Physics

  Keynote address at CSICOP conference, 1987.

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• The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Microsoft, Tests, Information

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• When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low cultural stream in those days. It was completly below the radar and no one bothered to censurate it.

  William Gibson

  Children, Fiction, Information

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• The major thing is to view biology as an information science.

  Leroy Hood

  Views, Information, Biology

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• Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful.

  Lil Wayne

  Beautiful, Library, Information

  "Lil’Wayne Live Blogs Prison" by Sonja Sharp, www.motherjones.com. April 6, 2010.

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