Science Quotes And Sayings

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“But the great tragedy of Science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact – which is so constantly being enacted under the eyes of philosophers.”
– T.H. Huxley

“Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope.”
– Theodore Roszak

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

“The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.”
– Thomas H. Huxley

“Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”
– Thomas Henry Huxley

“The improver of natural science absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such.  For him, scepticism is the highest of duties:  blind faith the one unpardonable sin.”
– Thomas Henry Huxley

“Science is simply common sense at its best.”
– Thomas Henry Huxley

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

“Scientists should always state the opinions upon which their facts are based.”
– Unknown

“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”   
– Unknown

“Last night as I lay in bed looking at the stars I thought ‘Where the hell is the ceiling ?’”
– Unknown

“Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.”  
– Unknown

“There are eight planets, unless of course you still count Pluto in which case there are nine million planets.”
– Unknown

“Why don’t you light that candle?”   
– Unknown

“The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.”  
– Unknown

“Losers quit when they’re tired, winners quit when they’ve won.”
– Unknown

“The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.”
– Walter Lippmann

“Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.”
– Wernher Von Braun

“I have learned to use the word ‘impossible‘ with the greatest caution.”  
– Wernher Von Braun

“There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program: your tax dollar will go farther.”  
– Wernher Von Braun

“Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.”  
– Wernher Von Braun

“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.”
– Will Durant

“Science, like life, feeds on its own decay.  New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.”
– William James

“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.”
– William Lawrence Bragg

“That theory is worthless.  It isn’t even wrong!”
– Wolfgang Pauli

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