In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs.
—Sir William Bragg
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
—Stephen Jay Gould
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
—Unknown
The great tragedy of Science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
—Thomas H. Huxley
Art is I; science is we.
—Claude Bernard
Nature engenders the science of painting.
—Robert Delaunay
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
—Gregory Bateson
In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.
—Martin H. Fischer
The crux… is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
—William J. Broad
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
—Frank Herbert
It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
—Dan Quayle
We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.
—Atul Gawande
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
—Richard Feynman