Science Quotes - Page 8

• Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

  Max Frisch

  Wisdom, Technology, World

  Max Frisch (1994). “Homo Faber”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

  Claude Bernard

  Men, Discovery, Joy

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.239, Courier Corporation

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• The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

  Thomas Huxley

  Faith, Believe, Men

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an inch in diameter ... Think of the sun as something less than a speck of dust in a vast city, of the earth as less than a millionth part of such a speck of dust, and we have perhaps as vivid a picture as the mind can really grasp of the relation of our home in space to the rest of the universe.

  James Jeans

  Home, Thinking, Dust

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• Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

  Aldous Huxley

  Knowledge, Darkness, World

  1925 Views of Holland.

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• Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Impossible Things, Done, Possibility

  "The Rolling Stones". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1952.

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• There are no creeds in mathematics.

  Peter Drucker

  Mathematics, Creeds

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• Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Math, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.79, Harvard University Press

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• Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Courage, Asking Questions, Pertinent Questions

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• Science does not know its debt to imagination.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Imagination, Doe, Debt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly”, p.60

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• Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Truth, Religion, Way

  Konrad Lorenz (2002). “On Aggression”, p.279, Psychology Press

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• The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.

  Salvador Dali

  God, Real, Dna

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• There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Education, Humor

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Fit the Seventh" (radio program) (1978)

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• Science is organized knowledge.

  Herbert Spencer

  Management, Organized

  Education ch. 2 (1861)

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• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.188, Princeton University Press

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• The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.

  Carl Sagan

  Passion, Sunset, White

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.154, Ballantine Books

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• We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

  Wernher von Braun

  Sarcastic, Work, Space

  "On Bureaucracy". "Chicago Sun-Times" Newspaper, July 10, 1958.

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• The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps be too fanciful to say that a new idea is the most quickly acting antigen known to science.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Ideas, Mind, Acting

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• Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

  Robert K. Merton

  Inspirational, Faith, Demand

  Robert K. Merton (1973). “The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations”, p.265, University of Chicago Press

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• Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

  Alexander Pope

  Nature, Night, Light

  "Epitaph: Intended for Sir Isaac Newton" l. 1 (1730) See Squire 1

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• Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.

  Bertrand Russell

  Math, Air, Space

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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• Science is the topography of ignorance.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Ignorance, Topography

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Medical Essays”, p.211, Reprint Services Corporation

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