Science & Technology

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single
individual.
- Galileo Galilei
Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the
latter because of their smallness; Imagine what they are when combined.
- Galileo Galilei
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We cannot understand it if we
do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in the
mathematical language ... without whos.
- Galileo Galilei
Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution,
the first waves of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power. And this generation does not
intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be part of it - we mean to lead
it.
- President John F. Kennedy
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right.
When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
- Arthur C. Clarke
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure
in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth
knowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the
senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do
with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its
parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp.
- Henri Poincar
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich,
precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
- Johannes Kepler
For I dipped into the Future, far as human eye could see; saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder
that would be.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment
crowns the dream.
- Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large
American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
- Carl Sagan
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
- Carl Sagan
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
- Carl Sagan
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.
They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also
laughed at Bozo the Clown.
- Carl Sagan
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
- Carl Sagan
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics,
plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.
- Albert Einstein
The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library.
The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone
must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in
which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books---a mysterious
order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.
- Albert Einstein
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy
has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from
the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
- Albert Einstein
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
- Albert Einstein
Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that

which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols
of the mathematician.
- Arthur Eddington
There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, "It appears that in
billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune".
- Arthur Eddington
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories,
one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that
made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.
- Arthur Eddington
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature
that which the mind put into nature.
- Arthur Eddington
We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is
"one and one." We forget that we still have to make a study of "and."
- Arthur Eddington
Who will observe the observers?
- Arthur Eddington
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading.
He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other
men.
- Isaac Asimov
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers
wisdom.
- Isaac Asimov
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
- Isaac Asimov
Science is the power of Man.
- Ikari Gendo Neon Genesis Evangelion
The discovery of natural law is a meeting with God.
- F. Dessauer
The more we know of things, the more we know of God.
- Baruch Spinoza
The order, the symmetry, the harmony enchant usGod is pure order. He is the originator of universal
harmony.

- Gottfried Leibniz
Science aint an exact science.
- Twelve Monkeys
We should be most careful about retreating from the specific challenge of our age. We should be reluctant
to turn our back upon the frontier of this epoch... We cannot be indifferent to space, because the grand
slow march of our intelligence has brought us, in our generation, to a point from which we can explore
and understand and utilize it. To turn back now would be to deny our history, our capabilities.
- James Michener
Today, everybody remembers Galileo. How many can name the bishops and professors who refused to
look through his telescope?
- James Hogan
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain. And as far as they are certain, they
do not refer to reality.
- Einstein
Einstein never accepted quantum mechanics because of this element of chance and uncertainty. He said:
God does not play dice. It seems that Einstein was doubly wrong. The quantum effects of black holes
suggests that not only does God play dice, He sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
- Steven Hawking
That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of
unimaginable wonder.
- Calvin and Hobbes
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but
"That's funny..."
- Isaac Asimov
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
- Richard Feynman
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with
problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can,
learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
- Richard Feynman
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know
absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what
counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing
something.
- Richard Feynman
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

- Richard Feynman
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there,
but just to comprehend those things which 'are' there.
- Richard Feynman
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane
became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
- Bill Gates
When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700
miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any
sense.
- David Letterman
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across
trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full
speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air.
- Wilbur Wright
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
- Edwin Powell Hubble
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
- Albert Einstein
There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the
rest.
- Rudolph Ladenburg
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is
not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
- Henri Poincare
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a
technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.
- Marie Curie
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such
a trifling investment of fact.
- Mark Twain

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers; he's one who asks the right questions.
- Claude Lvi-Strauss

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little
knowledge can give us so much power.
- Bertrand Russell
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.
- Evelyn Fox Keller
Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a
science than a heap of stones is a house.
- Henri Poincare
The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and
less satisfied with our answers to better problems.
- G.W. Allport
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
- John Dewey
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with
problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can,
learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
- Richard P. Feynman
To say that science is logical is like saying that a painting is paint.
- Leon Cooper
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives
man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two
are not rivals.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of
superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country
inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to
seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some
accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the frame and force the
construction of a new one, but that is extremely rare. Galileos and Einsteins seldom appear more than
once per century, which is just as well for the equanimity of mankind.
- Arthur C. Clarke
If you see an antimatter version of yourself running towards you, think twice before embracing.
- J. Richard Gott III

Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.
- Werner Heisenberg
It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

- Albert Einstein