The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
Ray Bradbury

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

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

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

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
Arnold H. Glasow

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

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov

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.
Alvin Toffler

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Gertrude Stein

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Walter Lippmann

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov

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

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
Mark Russell

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
Irving Langmuir

There are no shortcuts in evolution.
Louis D. Brandeis

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Isaac Asimov

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
Charles Pierce

There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.
John D. Barrow

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
Ray Bradbury