Tuesday 5 July 2011

science quotes

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.  ~Edwin Powell Hubble, The Nature of Science, 1954


I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts.  Namely, the physical universe.  ~Ken Jenkins


No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.  ~Thomas Browne


If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.  ~Henry J. Tillman


A biophysicist talks physics to the biologists and biology to the physicists, but then he meets another biophysicist, they just discuss women.  ~Author Unknown


Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope.  ~Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends, 1972


There is something fascinating about science.  One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.  ~Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 1883


Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.  ~Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776


Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.  ~Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life, 1913


The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."  ~Isaac Asimov


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.  ~Edward Teller

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