Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clyde Tombaugh

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

Clyde Tombaugh

Young man, I am afraid you are wasting your time. If there were any more planets they would have been found long before this.

Ashleigh Brilliant

One good thing about my computer: it never asks why.

Arthur Helps

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

Ashley Montagu

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

Ashley Montagu

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Arthur Cayley

Metrical geometry is thus a part of descriptive geometry, and descriptive geometry is all geometry.

Brian Greene

We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.

Brian Greene

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

Brian Greene

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

Archilochus

Nothing can be sworn impossible since Zeus made night during mid-day, hiding the light of the shining Sun.

Barbara Kingsolver

Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.

Baruch Spinoza

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

Auguste Comte

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

Auguste Comte

Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.

Arthur Koestler

Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species.

Arthur Koestler

Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem.

Arthur Koestler

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

Charles Fort

The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.

Charles Fort

Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.

Aristotle

Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

Aristotle

The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have them widely separated, smaller, and more scattered, are generally more short lived.

Aristotle

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

Aristotle

A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

Aristotle

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

Aristotle

For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.

Aristotle

Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

Aristotle

He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.

Aristotle

Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term.

Aristotle

In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.

Aristotle

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

Dixie Lee Ray

A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

Scripps is a science institute. We don't want to be suing the county.