Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Young

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

Edward Young

Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

Edmund Burke

Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science as to suffer it to stagnate; these waters must be troubled before they can exert their virtues.

Edward R. Murrow

A satellite has no conscience.

I was interested in science before I even knew what science was.

Annie Jump Cannon

A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature.

Daniel J. Boorstin

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

D. H. Lawrence

When science starts to be interpretive it is more unscientific even than mysticism.

D. H. Lawrence

To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and of perception, the four Great Ones, the Four Roots, the First Four of Fire and the Wet, Earth and the wide Air of the World. To find the other many elements, you must go to the laboratory and hunt them down. But the four we have always with us, they are our world. Or rather, they have us with them.

D. H. Lawrence

I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that can't settle, refusing to sit still and be measured; and as if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind.

D. H. Lawrence

One might talk about the sanity of the atom the sanity of space the sanity of the electron the sanity of water- For it is all alive and has something comparable to that which we call sanity in ourselves. The only oneness is the oneness of sanity.

D. H. Lawrence

...where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united...

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.

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.

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.

Anaxagoras

The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.