Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life.

Immanuel Kant

 

 

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

 

 

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Edward Teller

 

 

The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

 

 

I have most bitterly regretted that I didn’t study physics when I was at school, because it is the key to the most exciting research and discoveries of our time, and physicists are the adventurers and the risk takers. Young people who study physics can expect to find themselves at the frontier of human thought.

Doris Lessing

 

 

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Bertrand Russell

 

 

Happy is the man who can recognise in the work of today a connected portion of the work of eternity. The foundations of his confidence are unchangeable, for he has been made a partaker of infinity. He strenuously works out his daily enterprises, because the present is given him for a possession.

James Clerk Maxwell

 

 

The best person to decide what research shall be done is the one doing the research. The next best is the head of the department. After that you leave the field of best persons and meet increasingly worse groups. The first of these is the research director, who is probably wrong more than half the time. Then comes a committee which is wrong most of the time. Finally there is a committee of company vice-presidents, which is wrong all the time.

Charles Mees (Research director, Kodak)

 

 

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

Henrik Ibsen

 

 

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

Max Planck

 

 

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

Thomas Browne (1605-82)

 

 

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

The Prophet Muhammed

 

 

Physics should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. (attributed; after hearing a philosopher lecturing on relativity)
Science is a wonderful thing if one doesn’t have to earn one’s living at it.

Albert Einstein

 

 

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.

Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.

Wernher von Braun

 

 

Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century? I am afraid that it is.

George Porter

 

 

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates (460-377BC)

 

 

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life – so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.

M. Cartmill

 

 

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

Martin Luther King

 

 

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny …’

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)

 

 

If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.

Judith Hayes

 

 

Knowledge is boring, it’s what you don’t know that’s not boring.

Blaise Egan

 

 

Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of.

Unattributed

 

 

Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood a single word

Neils Bohr

 

 

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.

Richard Feynman

 

 

The doubter is a true man of science; he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.

Claude Bernard

 

 

In physics, you don’t have to go around making trouble for yourself – nature does it for you.

Frank Wilczek

 

 

Those who invest in science invest in the future, those who cut science hope for the best.

John Beddington

 

 

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers

Thomas Watson (Chairman of IBM) in 1943

 

 

I am not in it for the income, I am in it for the outcome.
I have learnt so much from my mistakes that I have decided to make another one.

Rania Hafez