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.

Jeremy Solomon

The policy is very clear. We still don't have all the facts of what took place.

Cecelia Ahern

Is not where I live happily ever after, or who with. It's the fact that I live happily ever after.

Bill Vaughan

The fact is that I loved being in England.

Bertrand Russell

Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.

Bertrand Russell

Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning

Bertrand Russell

Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this study is, as we say, "purely formal".

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Peter Fisher

We have the public support. We have the facts on our side.

Robert McDuff

Justice Diaz did not evade taxes, and when all of the facts come out, it will be clear, as it was the last time we were in court, that he is innocent.

Edward Hirsch

Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor, the working through of a metaphor.

David Hilbert

No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us. Expressing the importance of Cantor's set theory in the development of mathematics.

Carl Jung

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

Jan Eliasson

Without peace there is no development, and without development there is no peace

Alain Aspect

The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.

Brian Behlendorf

In true open source development, theres lots of visibility all the way through the development process.

Jane Jacobs

poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. Analogically, heat is a result of active processes; it has causes. But cold is not the result of any processes; it is only the absence of heat. Just so, the great cold of poverty and economic stagnation is merely the absence of economic development.

Ben Bernanke

Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.

Ban Ki-moon

We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.