"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

"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus." - William Blake

"Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them." - Georges Brague, Illustrated Notebooks

"We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming." - Wernher von Braun, in Chicago Sun Times

"The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star." - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste

"The First Clarke Law states, 'If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong.'" - Arthur C. Clarke, quoted in New Yorker

"We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin." - Charles Darwin

"In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs." - Francis Darwin, in Eugenics Review

"What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful." - Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby

"A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity." - Albert Einstein

"A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it." - Albert Einstein, attributed

"I, at any rate, am convinced that He 'God' is not playing at dice." - Albert Einstein, letter (1926)

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." - Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years

"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility." - Albert Einstein, quoted in Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers

"I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it." - Harry Emerson Fosdick, Riverside Sermons

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition." - Adam Smith

"A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms." - George Wald

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount." - Bradly, General Omar N.

"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them." - Bragg, Sir William

"I, for one, bet on science as helping us. I have yet to see how it fundamentally endangers us, even with the H-bomb lurking about. Science has given us more lives than it has taken; we must remember that." - Dick, Philip K. in 'Self Portrait' 1968

"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." - Einstein, Albert

"One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have." - Einstein, Albert

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." - Einstein, Albert

"He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)

"'There is no truth beyond magic' ... reality is strange. Many people think reality is prosaic. I don't. We don't explain things away in science. We get closer to the mystery." - Goodwin, Brian quoted by Roger Lewin in 'Complexity' 1992

"In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand." - Holton, Gerald

"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous." - Hume, David in 'A Treatise of Human Nature' 1739

"By the time a social science theory is formulated in such a way that it can be tested, changing circumstances have already made it obsolete." - Issawi, Charles P.

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - King Jr., Martin Luther (1929-1968)

"If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion." - Long, Lazarus

"Oh no. We're in the hands of engineers!" - Malcolm, Ian [a chaos theorist] in 'Jurassic Park'

"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress." - Oppenheimer, J. Robert (1904-1967)

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." - Sagan, Carl (1934- )

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education." - Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950)

"Parkinson's Finding on Journals: The progress of science varies inversely with the number of journals published." - Unknown

"Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science." - Zuka, Gary in 'The Dancing Wu Li Masters'