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.

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

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

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.

Leave the atom alone.

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.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

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

Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

Science is organized knowledge.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

That's one of those things about being a computer science major: Valentine's Day is just another day.

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.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

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

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.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.

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

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

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.

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

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

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

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

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

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

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Science grows like a weed every year.

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.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

There is no complete theory of anything.

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

It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.

For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

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.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

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

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

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

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

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

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

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

Science is nothing but perception.

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

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Art is I; science is we.

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.