Famous Science Quotes

"Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin"

John von Neumann, Mathematician

"The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"He is dead in this world who has no belief in another"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease"

Ashley Montagu, Scientist

"If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us"

Paul Valery, Poet

"I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel"

E. B. White, Writer

"Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

"Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

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

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"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"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

"People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"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"

Adam Smith, Economist

"The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"For NASA, space is still a high priority"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms"

Stephen Jay Gould, Scientist

"Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within"

Stephen Jay Gould, Scientist

"What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on"

Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer

"I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists"

Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer

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

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

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

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos"

Robert Quillen, Journalist

"Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution"

Jay Leno, Comedian

"Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years"

Mike Pence, Politician

"A satellite has no conscience"

Edward R. Murrow, Journalist

"Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly"

Linus Pauling, Scientist

"Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world"

Jane Howard, Journalist

"When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods"

Leon Battista Alberti, Architect

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

Alan Perlis, Scientist

"Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them"

Martin Henry Fischer

"From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"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"

Lewis Thomas, Scientist

"The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor"

Alvin Toffler, Author

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

Bruce Feirstein, Writer

"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective"

Edward Teller, Physicist

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