Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.

Charles Caleb Colton

No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.

Charles Caleb Colton

The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.

Alan Watts

We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician.

Howard Eisen

Wait until you see the science that is going to come back from this mission. It's going to know your socks off.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle in the air-a mere possibility; whilst the material without a plan is but useless matter.

Dmitri Mendeleev

When the elements are arranged in vertical columns according to increasing atomic weight, so that the horizontal lines contain analogous elements again according to increasing atomic weight, an arrangement results from which several general conclusions may be drawn.

Dmitri Mendeleev

If all the elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights, a periodic repetition of properties is obtained. This is expressed by the law of periodicity.

Dave Barry

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

Andrew Flintoff

I'm not keen on making predictions.

Christopher Reeve

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

Robert Kiyosaki

A prediction is a prediction because it's predictable.

Jackie Mason

Predictions are preposterous.

Murray Gell-Mann

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.

George Soros

My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.

Frank Herbert

Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!

Niels Bohr

It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

Predictions are hard, especially abot the future.

Don DeLillo

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Agatha Christie

The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Ernest Hemingway

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

Frank Zappa

You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain't what you're not. So see what you got?

Jethro Tull

He's watching me watching you watching him watching me watching him watching.

James Cook

There are alternate explanations for everything.

James M. Barrie

I do loathe explanations.

Meat Loaf

There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.

Lincoln Child

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.