Science Quotes

The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very appealing. If you are inclined to donate yourself to science, you should not let images of dissection or dismemberment put you off. They are no more or less gruesome, in my opinion, than ordinary decay or the sewing shut of your jaws via your nostrils for a funeral viewing.

Mary Roach

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

Francis Bacon

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

Arthur C. Clarke

Oh juventud nunca dejes de pensar...

Albert Einstein

We live of novelty in science. So when you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that it cannot be done, that it's not interesting and so on.

Heinrich Rohrer

If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.

Ben Hogan

I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.

Martin Fleischmann

You may not think you eat a lot of corn and soybeans, but you do: 75 percent of the vegetable oils in your diet come from soy (representing 20 percent of your daily calories) and more than half of the sweeteners you consume come from corn (representing around 10 perecent of daily calories).

Michael Pollan

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

Donald Knuth

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Holmes Sr., Oliver Wendell

Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)

Robert Frost

Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.

Jean M. Auel

If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.

Isaac Asimov

But now seeing that great knowledge, while good, had not saved the world, he turned in penance to the Lord, crying.

Walter Miller

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

Edward Thorndike

Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

Steve Sheinkin

In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.

Harvey Cushing

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

James M. Baldwin

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

Carl Sagan

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.

Delos Banning McKown