Famous Science Quotes

"The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

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

John von Neumann, Mathematician

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

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

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

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

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

Wernher von Braun, Scientist

"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

"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 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

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

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

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

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

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

Gertrude Stein, Author

"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

"For NASA, space is still a high priority"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"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

"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

"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

"Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

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

E. B. White, Writer

"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

"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination"

John Dewey, Philosopher

"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

"Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'"

Max Planck, Scientist

"A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it"

Max Planck, Scientist

"A satellite has no conscience"

Edward R. Murrow, Journalist

"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

"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

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

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"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

"You cannot feed the hungry on statistics"

Heinrich Heine, Poet

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

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"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

"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 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

"We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming"

Wernher von Braun, Scientist

"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

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