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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


A satellite has no conscience. Edward R. Murrow


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


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


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. Adam Smith


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


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. Margaret Mead


Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world. Jane Howard


Anybody who has been seriously engaged is 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


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


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


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. Jay Leno


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


Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. John Dewey


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


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


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


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. Tom Hanks


Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. Archimedes


Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. Martin Henry Fischer


He is so old that his blood type was discontinued. George William Curtis


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


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


I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for. James H. Boren


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


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


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


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. Arthur C. Clarke


If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. Robert Quillen


In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. Hugh Walpole


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. Stephen Jay Gould


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


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


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


Leave the atom alone. E. Y. Harburg


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


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


Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. Edmund Hillary


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


Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. Henry B. Adams


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


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.


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


Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein


Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft. Sam Ervin


Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Albert Einstein


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. Adam Smith


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


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


Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. Albert Einstein


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


Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness. James D. Watson


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


The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. Lewis Thomas


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


The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease. Ashley Montagu


The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. Arnold H. Glasow


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


The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning. Lewis Thomas


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


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


The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. Alvin Toffler


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


The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. Albert Einstein


The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. Walter Lippmann


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


The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. Edward Teller


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


There are no shortcuts in evolution. Louis D. Brandeis


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


There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be. Charles Pierce


There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time. John D. Barrow


Touch a scientist and you touch a child. Ray Bradbury


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


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


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. Alfred Hitchcock


What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on. Jacques Yves Cousteau


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


When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods. Leon Battista Alberti


When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research. Wilson Mizner


Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.' Dave Parnas


You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. Heinrich Heine


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