If I had thought about it, I wouldn’t have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can’t do this. —Spencer Silver More about this quote Tags: learning thinking possibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow. —Charles Brower More about this quote Tags: ideas growth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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. —Arthur C. Clarke More about this quote Tags: learning knowledge certainty science doubt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus: in the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. —Terry Prachett More about this quote Tags: knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. —Maria Mitchell More about this quote Tags: beauty imagination poetry science mathematics logic Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. —Mark Russell More about this quote Tags: humor science saturn Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural. —Amelia Barr More about this quote Tags: science supernatural Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give the physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: reality science evidence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life — so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. —Matt Cartmill More about this quote Tags: humor meaning knowledge science facts Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 Cousteau More about this quote Tags: knowledge curiosity science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. —Albert Schweitzer More about this quote Tags: reality gratitude existence thought Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: humor rules ten commandments laws Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to be President, but according to a famous Gallup poll of some years ago, some 73 percent do not want them to become politicians in the process. —John F. Kennedy More about this quote Tags: politics humor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. —Louis D. Brandeis More about this quote Tags: happiness USA liberty independence courage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. —Marcus Aurelius More about this quote Tags: mind power strength Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email