30.9.12

Kutipan (Quote) - Science (1)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
Ray Bradbury

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
Konrad Lorenz

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

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
Ray Bradbury

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

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
Mark Russell

Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl Sagan

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

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
Max Planck

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard Shaw

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

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

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan Perlis

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Stephen Jay Gould

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Marcus Aurelius

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
Heinrich Heine

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

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley

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

For NASA, space is still a high priority.
Dan Quayle

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.
Paul Valery

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Carl Jung

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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

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

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.
W. H. Auden

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

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Huxley

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