- Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they
were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness
of the universe.
--Albert Einstein
- Politics is more difficult than physics
--Albert Einstein
- Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's
living at it.
--Albert Einstein
- Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
--Aristotle
- There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere
is to brighten it everywhere.
--Isaac Asimov
- The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis
by an ugly fact.
--Thomas Huxley
- Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no
remedy for the worst of them all- the apathy of human beings.
--Helen Keller
- It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and
music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them
the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them
to see visions and dream dreams.
--Eric Anderson
- Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry
is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.
--Mike Adams
- If it's green, it's biology, If it stinks, it's chemistry, If it
has numbers it's math, If it doesn't work, it's technology
--Unknown
- The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle;
pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without
character; business without morality; science without humanity; and
worship without sacrifice.
--Mahatma Gandhi
- Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical
questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to
the spirit of chemistry.... if mathematical analysis should ever hold
a prominent place in chemistry -- an aberration which is happily almost
impossible -- it would occasion a rapid and widespread degeneration
of that science.
--Auguste Comte
- Chemists are, on the whole, like physicists, only 'less so'.They
don't make quite the same wonderful mistakes, and much what they do
is an art, related to cooking, instead of a true science. They have
their moments, and their sources of legitimate pride. They don't split
atoms, as the physicists do. They join them together, and a very praiseworthy
activity that is.
--Anthony Standen, Science is a sacred cow (1958).
- 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
- Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if
it's in Hamburger Technology.
--Clive James
- The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are
composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
--Mark Russell
- OK, so what's the speed of dark?
--Steven Wright
- New ideas pass through three periods:
*It can't be done.
*It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing.
*I knew it was a good idea all along !
- --Arthur C. Clarke
- If rats are experimented on they will develop cancer.
--Morton's Law
- Man can't help hoping even if he is a scientist. He can only hope
more accurately.
--Dr. Karl Menninger
- Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook
magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak,
men mistake medicine for magic.
--Thomas Szasz, M.D.
- Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it.
Feed it.
--Aubrey Eben
- Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
--Albert Einstein
- Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me
that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it
hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case
I am convinced that He doesn't play dice.
--Albert Einstein
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