The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers
knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
- Isaac Asimov
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology.
The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
- Immanuel Kant
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is
science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and
a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
- Henri Poincaire
True Science teaches, above all, to doubt, and to be ignorant.
- Miguel de Unamuno
If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the
other sciences fade into insignificance.
- James Gorman
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook
magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion
weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
- Thomas Szasz
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found
no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Science is nothing but developed perception,
interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and
minutely articulated.
- George Santayana (1863-1952)
I recently heard that scientists have isolated the gene
that makes scientists want to isolate genes.
- Unknown
All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge
and a perfect understanding of the action of natural
and moral forces.
- Hermann Helmholtz
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on
which to place it, and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes, Pappus of Alexandria
There is a single light of science, and to
brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
- Isaac Asimov
The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a
beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
- Thomas Huxley
Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all- the apathy
of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Everything that can be invented, has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, 1899
Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the
steamroller, you're part of the road.
- Stewart Brand
I can't understand a word you say. And you're poorly dressed.
You must be some sort of technology expert. Or a rodeo clown.
- Dilbert's Pointy Haired Boss
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
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with
romance - the idea that anything is possible.
- Ray Bradbury
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers,
he is one who asks the right questions.
- Claude Levi-Strauss
Why do scientists call it research when looking for
something new?
- Anonymous
The goal of science is to build better mousetraps.
The goal of nature is to build better mice.
- Anonymous
All scientific discoveries are first recorded on napkins
or tablecloths. Engineering advances are drawn inside
matchbook covers. Keep supplies of them handy at all times.
- Anonymous
Scientists are the pinheads upon which angels dance.
- Anonymous
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance --
the idea that anything is possible.
- Ray Bradbury
There are three reasons why lawyers are being used more and more
in scientific experiments. First, every year there are more of
them around. Second, lab assistants don't get attached to them.
And, third, there are some things that rats just won't do.
- Unknown
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