Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile.

Albert Einstein

The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry.

You can only go into science because you're interested in it.

Alva Myrdal

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.

Tim Hunt

Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.

Trofim Lysenko

In essence, the science of agronomy is inseparable from biology.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.

Kurt Vonnegut

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

Abraham Pais

[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.

Ann Druyan

Science reserves the highest reward for those of you who disprove our most cherished beliefs. At any moment someone from any walk of life could come forward and be responsible for a complete revision of our view of everything.

A. E. van Vogt

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

Aeschylus

Number, the most excellent of all inventions.

Adam Smith

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Abraham Flexner

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

My parents, once I made it clear to them that I wanted to do science, they were totally sympathetic.

But theyve got it pretty much down to a science now,

Alice Stewart

In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time.

Annie Jump Cannon

A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature.

Daniel J. Boorstin

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

D. H. Lawrence

When science starts to be interpretive it is more unscientific even than mysticism.

D. H. Lawrence

To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and of perception, the four Great Ones, the Four Roots, the First Four of Fire and the Wet, Earth and the wide Air of the World. To find the other many elements, you must go to the laboratory and hunt them down. But the four we have always with us, they are our world. Or rather, they have us with them.

D. H. Lawrence

I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that can't settle, refusing to sit still and be measured; and as if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind.

D. H. Lawrence

One might talk about the sanity of the atom the sanity of space the sanity of the electron the sanity of water- For it is all alive and has something comparable to that which we call sanity in ourselves. The only oneness is the oneness of sanity.

D. H. Lawrence

...where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united...

D. H. Lawrence

Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.

Alexander Pope

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

Alexander Pope

To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!

Alexander Pope

New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,...

Alexander Pope

Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

Alexander Pope

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Science has helped us to understand and master ourselves, creating an elevated new form of human life, the wealth and beauty of which cannot be pictured today by the keenest imagination.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

E. O. Wilson

It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like a molecule in a cloud of molecules-it is a unique population.