Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ivar Giaever

Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.

Ivar Giaever

'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.

David Hanson

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

William Gibson

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.

Carl Sagan

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.

Carl Sagan

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Carl Sagan

I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.

Christopher Reeve

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

Andrew Flintoff

I'm not keen on making predictions.

Murray Gell-Mann

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.

Frank Herbert

Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!

Jackie Mason

Predictions are preposterous.

George Soros

My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.

Robert Kiyosaki

A prediction is a prediction because it's predictable.

Niels Bohr

It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

Predictions are hard, especially abot the future.

Agatha Christie

The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Don DeLillo

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Ernest Hemingway

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

Frank Zappa

You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain't what you're not. So see what you got?

Jethro Tull

He's watching me watching you watching him watching me watching him watching.

Sammy Hagar

Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.

Lincoln Child

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

James Cook

There are alternate explanations for everything.

Meat Loaf

There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.