Science Quotes

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted.

Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.

There is no complete theory of anything.

One can not impede scientific progress.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them.

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

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.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.