Famous Quotes & Sayings

D. H. Lawrence

Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.

Alexander Pope

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

Alexander Pope

To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!

Alexander Pope

New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,...

Alexander Pope

Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

Alexander Pope

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Science has helped us to understand and master ourselves, creating an elevated new form of human life, the wealth and beauty of which cannot be pictured today by the keenest imagination.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

E. O. Wilson

It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like a molecule in a cloud of molecules-it is a unique population.

E. O. Wilson

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

E. O. Wilson

Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.

E. O. Wilson

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

Donella Meadows

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.

Douglas Adams

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

Donald Knuth

A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.

Donald Knuth

I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.

Colin Powell

I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that I never entered it.

Claude Levi-Strauss

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.

e. e. cummings

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

E. B. White

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

Douglas Hofstadter

I am the thought you are now thinking.

Douglas Hofstadter

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

Daniel Webster

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

David Leavitt

'You might think of combinatorics as a machine too', the major says. 'A different sort of machine, though. Have you heard of Babbage's analytic engine? He never built it. ... I have an analytic machine of my own-right here.' He taps his own skull.

Anthony Burgess

I didn't think; I experimented.

Andrew Schneider

As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event.

Ann Veneman

We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.

Anais Nin

Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.

Alvin Toffler

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

Andrew Wiles

Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.

Andrei Sakharov

We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions. The complexity and diversity of all the phenomena of modern life, the great possibilities and dangers linked with the scientific-technical revolution and with a number of social tendencies demand precisely such an approach, as has been acknowledged in a number of official statements.

Anaxagoras

Neither is there a smallest part of what is small, but there is always a smaller (for it is impossible that what is should cease to be). Likewise there is always something larger than what is large.