Science quotes

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

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

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

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.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.