A person who trusts no one can't be trusted. —Jerome Blattner More about this quote Tags: trust mutuality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. —Kahlil Gibran More about this quote Tags: choice experience sorrow joy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. —Carl Sandburg More about this quote Tags: war humor peace progress Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. —J. B. S. Haldane More about this quote Tags: understanding knowledge universe Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
OK, so what’s the speed of dark? —Steven Wright More about this quote Tags: humor light Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike — and yet it is the most precious thing we have. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: reality science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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