Science Quotes

» Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

» Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

» A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

» Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

» No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

» Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

» The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

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

» We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

» The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

» Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

» The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

» If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

» Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

» The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

» The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

» We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

» Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

» People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

» There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

» For NASA, space is still a high priority.

» Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'

» I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

» Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

» A satellite has no conscience.

» The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

» A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

» Leave the atom alone.

» If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

» Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

» I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

» He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

» The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

» You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

» Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

» Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

» In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

» There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

» The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

» The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

» What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

» I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

» Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

» I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.

» Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

» Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.

» Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

» There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.

» Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

» Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

» It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

» When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

» The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.

» The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

» Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

» There are no shortcuts in evolution.

» Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

» Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

» Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

» The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

» Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

» Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

» Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

» Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

» A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

» Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

» It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.

» Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

» An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.

» I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

» Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

» The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

» Science does not know its debt to imagination.

» Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

» Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

» Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

» The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

» Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

» If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

» Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

» Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

» In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

» Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

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

» Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

» Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

» From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

» The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

» Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

» It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

» We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

» When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

» Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

» When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.

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