Science Quotes

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Bruce Feirstein

Success, Between, Genius

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
Alfred Hitchcock

Time, Give, Living

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery

Spring, Oneself, Paradox

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould

Time, Tomorrow, Mean

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
Wernher von Braun

Sometimes, Gravity, Paperwork

There are no shortcuts in evolution.
Louis D. Brandeis

Evolution, Shortcuts

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'
Erwin Chargaff

Confused, Why, Question

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
W. H. Auden

Find, Mistake, Company

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
Howard Nemerov

Travel, Nothing, Light

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
Edmund Hillary

Money, Hell, Used

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
Roger Bacon

Knowledge, Brain, Fact

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.
Tom Hanks

Live, Moon, Miracle

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
Jean Rostand

Men, Made, Before

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

Health, Public, Doctor

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
Charles Kettering

Thinks, Inventor, Asks

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
Wernher von Braun

Him, Free, Planet

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
John von Neumann

Living, Means, State

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
Linus Pauling

Facts, Air, Fly

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
Wilhelm Reich

Living, Chaos, Scientific

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
Edward Teller

Technology, Today, Tomorrow

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Lewis Thomas

Poetry, Control, Worry

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry Adams

Education, Ignorance, Nothing

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.
Jay Leno

Life, Today, Decision

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.
Bill Dana

Old, Blood, Type

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
James D. Watson

Freedom, Together, Give

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