Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Pratchett

It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.

Terry Pratchett

Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.

Margaret Mead

most people prefer to carry out the kinds of experiments that allow the scientist to feel that he is in full control of the situation rather than surrendering himself to the situation, as one must in studying human beings as they actually live.

Margaret Mead

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.

Michael Faraday

Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three separate sounds of "I" in one word is too much.

Michael Faraday

Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the assumption of a current or of two currents and also of fluids or a fluid, yet conveys a full and useful pictorial idea to the mind.

Michael Faraday

I propose to distinguish these bodies by calling those anions which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those passing to the cathode, cations; and when I have occasion to speak of these together, I shall call them ions.

Michael Faraday

I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as lights to those about you; that, in all your actions, you may justify the beauty of the taper by making your deeds honourable and effectual in the discharge of your duty to your fellow-men.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is more extraordinary than anything they can invent.

Jeri Ryan

I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.

Joseph Addison

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

John Tukey

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

John Updike

Human was the music, natural was the static.

John Stuart Mill

The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences.

John Stuart Mill

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.

John Stuart Mill

If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.

James Jeans

All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.

James Jeans

One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel.

James Jeans

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

James Hutton

In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

James Russell Lowell

We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.

James Russell Lowell

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the latter poetry has become science.

Laurence Sterne

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

Friedrich Engels

Life is the mode of action of proteins.

Friedrich Engels

And what is impossible to science?

Friedrich Engels

One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

Friedrich Schiller

To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.

George Andrews

It seems to me there's this grand mathematical world out there, and I am wandering through it and discovering fascinating phenomena that often totally suprise me. I do not think of mathemaatics as invented but rather discovered.

George Andrews

There is great exhilaration in breaking one of these things. ... Ramanujan gives no hints, no proof of his formulas, so everything you do you feel is your own.[About verifying Ramanujan's equations in a newly found manuscript.]

Henry A. Wallace

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

Henry Adams

My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't in the least know or care where our practically infinite energies come from or will bring us to.

Henry David Thoreau

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Henry Ford

Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of my assembly line. Mr. Edison, you built an assembly line which brought together the genius of invention, science and industry.