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| Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. ~ Edwin Powell Hubble, |
| 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 |
| No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer. ~ Thomas Browne |
| If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate. ~ Henry J. Tillman |
| A biophysicist talks physics to the biologists and biology to the physicists, but then he meets another biophysicist, they just discuss women. ~ Author Unknown |
| Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. ~ Theodore Roszak, |
| There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. ~ Mark Twain, |
| Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. ~ Adam Smith, |
| Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. ~ Miguel de Unamuno, |
| The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That’s funny…" ~ Isaac Asimov |
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| 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. ~ Edward Teller |
| Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing. ~ Wernher Von Braun |
| Science does not know its debt to imagination. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. ~ William Lawrence Bragg |
| Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. ~ Jean Rostand |
| Scientists should always state the opinions upon which their facts are based. ~ Author Unknown |
| That theory is worthless. It isn’t even wrong! ~ Wolfgang Pauli |
Louise: "How did you get here?"
Johnny: "Well, basically, there was this little dot, right? And the dot went bang and the bang expanded. Energy formed into matter, matter cooled, matter lived, the amoeba to fish, to fish to fowl, to fowl to frog, to frog to mammal, the mammal to monkey, to monkey to man, amo amas amat, quid pro quo, memento mori, ad infinitum, sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under the grill till Doomsday."
~ From the movie |
| Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. ~ Henri Poincaré, |
| A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. ~ Max Gluckman, |
| The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. ~ Walter Lippmann |
| Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. ~ Alan Valentine |
| Science is simply common sense at its best. ~ Thomas Huxley |
| Great scientific discoveries have been made by men seeking to verify quite erroneous theories about the nature of things. ~ Aldous Huxley |
| To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ~ Evelyn Fox Keller, |
| The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it. ~ Robert L. Park, in |
| The great men of science are supreme artists. ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof. ~ John Desmond Bernal, |
| Science is the topography of ignorance. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., |