Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. ~Edwin Powell Hubble, The Nature of Science, 1954
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
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Niels Bohr
Ludwig Boltzmann
Marie Curie
Paul Dirac
Arthur Eddington
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Michael Faraday
Enrico Fermi
Richard Feynman
Galileo
Werner Heisenberg
Maria Goeppert Mayer
Isaac Newton
Max Planck
Andrei Sakharov
Erwin Schrödinger
Emilio Segrè
Joseph John Thomson
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, Where the Wasteland Ends, 1972
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. ~Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 1883
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. ~Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. ~Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life, 1913
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
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
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. ~John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty, 1929
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 Naked
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, Science and Hypothesis, 1905
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, Politics, Law and Ritual, 1965
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, "Wordsworth in the Tropics"
Physics is imagination in a straight jacket. ~John Moffat
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. ~Robert Quillen
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. ~Albert Einstein
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ~Evelyn Fox Keller, Reflections on Gender and Science, 1995
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 New York Times, 7 December 1999
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, The Origin of Life, 1967
Science is the topography of ignorance. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Medical Essays, 1883
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