It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. —Konrad Lorenz More about this quote Tags: science age bias Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. —George Santayana More about this quote Tags: perception science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. —George Wald More about this quote Tags: wonder science physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. —Carl Sagan More about this quote Tags: wonder science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All science is either physics or stamp collecting. —Ernest Rutherford More about this quote Tags: science physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Matter is composed chiefly of nothing. —Carl Sagan in Cosmos More about this quote Tags: science substance matter Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense. —Carl Sagan More about this quote Tags: religion knowledge science scrutiny nonsense skepticism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break. —Earl Wilson More about this quote Tags: communication science gossip coffee Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: spirituality power science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: understanding science cats explanation electricity radio Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. —Steven Weinberg More about this quote Tags: humanity life meaning science universe tragedy farce Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time. —George Iles More about this quote Tags: knowledge science explanation superstition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. —Rebecca West More about this quote Tags: war perception science astronomy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense. —Carl Sagan More about this quote Tags: religion science doubt nonsense skepticism insight Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email