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| As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. (Albert Einstein) |
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| 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) |
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| Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. (Martin Luther King Jr. Strength to Love 1963) |
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| The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...' (Isaac Asimov) |
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| There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. (Benjamin Disraeli) |
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| There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. (Mark Twain) |
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| 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) |
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| USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population. (David Letterman) |
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| As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. (M. Cartmill) |
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| I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. (Richard Feynman) |
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| Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist. (Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones) |
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| Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. (Fletcher Knebel) |
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| Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. (Ashley Montague) |
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| 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) |
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| There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. (Hippocrates Law) |
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| I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. (Plato The Republic) |
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| As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. (Noam Chomsky in a television interview) |
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| In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs. (Sir Francis Darwin Eugenics Review April 1914) |
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| Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. (Albert Einstein) |
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| Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. (Bertrand Russell) |
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| The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. (Sir William Bragg) |
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| If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. (Vannevar Bush) |
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| Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club. (Thomas H. Huxley) |
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