Perfect As The Wing Of A Bird May Be, It Will Never Enable The Bird To Fly If Unsupported By The Air. Facts Are The Air Of Science. Without Them A Man Of Science Can Never Rise.
- Ivan Pavlov
When A Distinguished But Elderly Scientist States That Something Is Possible, He Is Almost Certainly Right. When He States That Something Is Impossible, He Is Very Probably Wrong.
- Arthur C. Clarke
As An Adolescent I Aspired To Lasting Fame, I Craved Factual Certainty, And I Thirsted For A Meaningful Vision Of Human Life – So I Became A Scientist. This Is Like Becoming An Archbishop So You Can Meet Girls.
- M. Cartmill
There Is Something Fascinating About Science. One Gets Such Wholesale Returns Of Conjecture Out Of Such A Trifling Investment Of Fact.
- Mark Twain
In Science The Credit Goes To The Man Who Convinces The World, Not The Man To Whom The Idea First Occurs.
- Sir Francis Darwin
Science Is Nothing But Trained And Organized Common Sense, Differing From The Latter Only As A Veteran May Differ From A Raw Recruit: And Its Methods Differ From Those Of Common Sense Only As Far As The Guardsman’s Cut And Thrust Differ From The Manner In Which A Savage Wields His Club.
- Thomas H. Huxley
The Effort To Understand The Universe Is One Of The Very Few Things That Lifts Human Life A Little Above The Level Of Farce, And Gives It Some Of The Grace Of Tragedy.
- Steven Weinberg
Nothing Shocks Me. I’m A Scientist.
- Harrison Ford
Science Is Nothing But Developed Perception, Interpreted Intent, Common Sense Rounded Out And Minutely Articulated.
- George Santayana
Every Science Begins As Philosophy And Ends As Art.
- Will Durant
Our Scientific Power Has Outrun Our Spiritual Power. We Have Guided Missiles And Misguided Men.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
There Are In Fact Two Things, Science And Opinion; The Former Begets Knowledge, The Latter Ignorance.
- Hippocrates
I Maintain There Is Much More Wonder In Science Than In Pseudoscience. And In Addition, To Whatever Measure This Term Has Any Meaning, Science Has The Additional Virtue, And It Is Not An Inconsiderable One, Of Being True.
- Carl Sagan
The Great Tragedy Of Science – The Slaying Of A Beautiful Hypothesis By An Ugly Fact.
Science Is Facts; Just As Houses Are Made Of Stones, So Is Science Made Of Facts; But A Pile Of Stones Is Not A House And A Collection Of Facts Is Not Necessarily Science.
- Henri Poincare
As Soon As Questions Of Will Or Decision Or Reason Or Choice Of Action Arise, Human Science Is At A Loss.
- Noam Chomsky
I Am Among Those Who Think That Science Has Great Beauty. A Scientist In His Laboratory Is Not Only A Technician: He Is Also A Child Placed Before Natural Phenomena Which Impress Him Like A Fairy Tale.
- Marie Curie
I Believe That A Scientist Looking At Nonscientific Problems Is Just As Dumb As The Next Guy.
- Richard Feynman
All Science Is Either Physics Or Stamp Collecting.
- Ernest Rutherford
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.
- Stephen Jay Gould
Science Can Only Ascertain What Is, But Not What Should Be, And Outside Of Its Domain Value Judgements Of All Kinds Remain Necessary.
- Albert Einstein
It Is A Good Morning Exercise For A Research Scientist To Discard A Pet Hypothesis Every Day Before Breakfast. It Keeps Him Young.
- Konrad Lorenz
The Important Thing In Science Is Not So Much To Obtain New Facts As To Discover New Ways Of Thinking About Them.
- Sir William Bragg
Science Has Proof Without Any Certainty. Creationists Have Certainty Without Any Proof.
- Ashley Montague
Science May Set Limits To Knowledge, But Should Not Set Limits To Imagination.
- Bertrand Russell
Science Is One Thing, Wisdom Is Another. Science Is An Edged Tool, With Which Men Play Like Children, And Cut Their Own Fingers.
- Sir Arthur Eddington
A New 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.
- Max Planck
That Is The Essence Of Science: Ask An Impertinent Question, And You Are On Your Way To The Pertinent Answer.
- Unknown
We Must Not Forget That When Radium Was Discovered No One Knew That It Would Prove Useful In Hospitals. The Work Was One Of Pure Science. And This Is A Proof That Scientific Work Must Not Be Considered From The Point Of View Of The Direct Usefulness Of It. It Must Be Done For Itself, For The Beauty Of Science, And Then There Is Always The Chance That A Scientific Discovery May Become Like The Radium A Benefit For Humanity.
The Most Exciting Phrase To Hear In Science, The One That Heralds New Discoveries, Is Not ‘Eureka!’ (I Found It!) But ‘That’s Funny …’
- Isaac Asimov
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.
- Lewis Thomas
There Are No Such Things As Applied Sciences, Only Applications Of Science.
- Louis Pasteur
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