Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Squyres

Our speed of travel is driven as much by survival as by discovery.

Kurt Adams

I'm impressed with the innovation of the students. They seem to always impress me with their understanding of scientific principles. There is a general love of science and discovery here.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

Carl Sagan

In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.

Carl Sagan

We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.

Bill Bryson

There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof.

Bertrand Russell

The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast.

Mark Geragos

I think, just by the discovery and where the remains were found tends to, I think ... exonerate Gary,

Martin Fleischmann

Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret.

Thomas Sydenham

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.

Thomas Sydenham

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.

John Pople

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.

Frederick Sanger

From 1944 to 1951 I held a Beit Memorial Fellowship for Medical Research, and since 1951 I have been on the staff of the Medical Research Council.

George Porter

It is a joyous occasion for a scientist when the subject which interests him most is recognised by the highest honour that the world can bestow.

Jonathan Brown

My favourite quality workout is 6 X 5 minutes with 1 minute rest between each.

Gilbert White

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

Gilbert White

I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.

Carl Sagan

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.

Carl Sagan

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Carl Sagan

I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.

Carl Sagan

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

Carl Sagan

There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he made so many fundamental contributions to science, but because he found an imperfection in the fundamental contribution of Isaac Newton.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

Carl Sagan

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science

Alan Alda

I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world.

Taylor Wilson

If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

Fabiola Gianotti

We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.

Alan Alda

I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.

Thomas R. Cech

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

Patti Smith

Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often something that you don't have a choice in. You have to do it.

Richard Smalley

Administrators and scientists are excited by buckyballs for their own sake, and if they turn out to have practical applications, so much the better.

Bill Bryson

It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron.

David Elias

I think it's wonderful what we're going through,

Robert Redford

Julie, it's wonderful to see you. This is Lena.

Karen Armstrong

It can be confusing. But it's a wonderful organization.

Tom Ferguson

I think (the Fringe) is wonderful because . . . this is not 'Annie Get Your Gun,'

Josh Groban

I got to play a real D-bag lawyer, and comb my hair really awfully and kiss Emma Stone, so it was a really wonderful day on set.

Anne Murphy

We can have all these wonderful things in place,

Mary Campbell

We feel it is a wonderful program, and they do wonderful things.

Charles Darwin

Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.