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

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a

Symposium", 1941

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is

almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very
probably wrong.

Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), Clarke's first law

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any
proof.

Ashley Montague

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in

addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the
additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford (1871 - 1937), in J. B. Birks "Rutherford at Manchester"

(1962)

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense

rounded out and minutely articulated.

George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Harrison Ford (1942 - ), as Indiana Jones

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 Poincare (1854 - 1912)

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the
latter ignorance.

Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC), Law

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)

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 (1920 - 1992)

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if
unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science
can never rise.

Ivan Pavlov (1849 - 1936)

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 (1903 - 1989)

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 (1913 - 1993)

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted

for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming
an archbishop so you can meet girls.

M. Cartmill

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his
laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural
phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would
prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that
scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct
usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there
is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a
benefit for humanity.

Marie Curie (1867 - 1934), Lecture at Vassar College, May 14, 1921

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of
conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and
misguided men.

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Strength to Love, 1963

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human
science is at a loss.

Noam Chomsky (1928 - ), in a television interview

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone,

something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984)

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the

next guy.

Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)

Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it
is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.

Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men
play like children, and cut their own fingers.

Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), Attributed in Robert L. Weber "More

Random Walks in Science", 1982

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to
whom the idea first occurs.

Sir Francis Darwin (1848 - 1925), Eugenics Review, April 1914

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover
new ways of thinking about them.

Sir William Bragg (1862 - 1942)

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 (1941 - 2002)

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature,
the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous
convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)