Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
—E. W. Dijkstra
Art is made to disturb, science reassures.
—Georges Braque
Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy. It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more energy than we could ever use in just about eight minutes. And it's wireless.
—William McDonough
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
—Dave Barry
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
—Ashley Montague
Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.
—Harrison Ford
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
—Hippocrates
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.
—Ivan Pavlov
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
—Lewis Thomas
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
—Louis Pasteur
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.
—Marie Curie
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.
—Marie Curie
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
—Noam Chomsky
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
—Paul Dirac
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
—Sir Francis Darwin