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
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
—George Santayana
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
—George Wald
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
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
—Ernest Rutherford
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
—Mark Twain
Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.
—Carl Sagan in Cosmos
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
—Carl Sagan
Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
—Earl Wilson
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
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
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
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
—George Iles
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
—Rebecca West
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
—Carl Sagan