It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. —Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man More about this quote Tags: ignorance knowledge science 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: imagination knowledge science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong. —Richard Feynman More about this quote Tags: philosophy science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. —Marston Bates More about this quote Tags: science research Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. —E. B. White More about this quote Tags: humor science analysis dissection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool. —Richard Feynman More about this quote Tags: perception science foolishness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. —Carl Sagan More about this quote Tags: technology knowledge science ignorace Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email