Science Quotes

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

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

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identifi…

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

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.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

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

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

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the…

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.