Science quotes

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

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

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle we just decided to go.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

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.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.