Science Quotes

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

"The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers."

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

"To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science."

"Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted."

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

"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."

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."

"Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in."

"Science is nothing but perception."

"Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion."

"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence."

"On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation."

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow."

"Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science."

"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact."

"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done."

"Geologists have a saying - rocks remember."

"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 to this certainty."

"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young."

"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 which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more."

"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."

"A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God."

"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."

"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."

"You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases."