| Quote 1 | Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. |
| Quote 2 | Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception ... |
| Quote 3 | Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. |
| Quote 68 | Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. |
| Quote 84 | Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not hav... |
| Quote 111 | Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. |
| Quote 129 | A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wan... |
| Quote 139 | A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually d... |
| Quote 223 | A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. |
| Quote 281 | It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. |
| Quote 300 | 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. |
| Quote 355 | For NASA, space is still a high priority.
- Dan Quayle |
| Quote 400 | 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... |
| Quote 648 | Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. |
| Quote 653 | Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. |
| Quote 698 | Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world. |
| Quote 785 | A satellite has no conscience.
- Edward R. Murrow |
| Quote 1046 | 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 ... |
| Quote 1488 | Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. |
| Quote 1736 | Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. |
| Quote 2282 | Science never solves a problem without creating ten more. |
| Quote 2408 | No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. |
| Quote 2452 | Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. |
| Quote 2736 | Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. |
| Quote 3108 | Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. |
| Quote 3565 | 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 ... |
| Quote 7626 | Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. |
| Quote 7731 | The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth. |
| Quote 7811 | Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in li... |
| Quote 8008 | There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time. |
| Quote 8092 | Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. |
| Quote 8101 | Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. |
| Quote 8159 | I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. |
| Quote 8272 | The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are co... |
| Quote 8372 | Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?&q... |
| Quote 8377 | People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. |
| Quote 8391 | Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fos... |
| Quote 8586 | Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. |
| Quote 8624 | In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." ... |
| Quote 8651 | The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. |
| Quote 8750 | Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent. |
| Quote 8907 | The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biolog... |
| Quote 8993 | There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. |
| Quote 9108 | Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. |
| Quote 9219 | The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...... |
| Quote 9386 | Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed. |
| Quote 9493 | Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. |
| Quote 9524 | 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. |
| Quote 9687 | Leave the atom alone.
- E. Y. Harburg |
| Quote 10025 | 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. |
| Quote 10051 | Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. |
| Quote 10063 | The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, tran... |
| Quote 10075 | 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 whic... |
| Quote 10182 | Science does not know its debt to imagination. |
| Quote 10287 | The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. |
| Quote 10289 | The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. |
| Quote 10373 | In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. |
| Quote 10540 | Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. |
| Quote 10559 | The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. |
| Quote 10585 | 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 m... |
| Quote 10603 | If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. |
| Quote 10627 | Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
- Ray Bradbury |
| Quote 10717 | 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 wh... |
| Quote 11054 | You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
- Heinrich Heine |
| Quote 11235 | Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for ye... |
| Quote 11265 | Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. |
| Quote 11339 | If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. |
| Quote 11561 | Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.' |
| Quote 11659 | If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossibl... |
| Quote 11684 | The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. |
| Quote 11705 | I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. |
| Quote 11771 | 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. |
| Quote 11865 | The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. |
| Quote 11929 | Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. |
| Quote 12325 | 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 a... |
| Quote 12386 | He is so old that his blood type was discontinued. |
| Quote 12633 | Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
- Sam Ervin |
| Quote 13397 | 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 ... |
| Quote 13584 | Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. |
| Quote 13645 | The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. |
| Quote 13678 | There are no shortcuts in evolution.
- Louis D. Brandeis |
| Quote 13788 | Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those ... |
| Quote 13821 | The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. |
| Quote 13941 | Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. |
| Quote 13994 | Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good. |