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

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Carl Jung

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

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

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

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

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
Leon Battista Alberti

When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.
Wilson Mizner

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'
Dave Parnas

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
Heinrich Heine

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
Niels Bohr