Category Detail for Science (41 Quotes)

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1 Albert Einstein Science Relativity When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
2 Albert Einstein Science Knowledge The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.
3 Albert Einstein Science Knowledge All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
4 Albert Einstein Science Religion Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
5 Albert Einstein Science Thought The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
6 Albert Einstein Science Atomic Energy The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
7 Albert Einstein Science Imagination Imagination will take you everywhere.
8 Albert Einstein Science Mystery The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead - his eyes are closed.
9 Albert Einstein Science Problems The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
10 Anais Nin Science Discovery There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
11 Arthur C. Clarke Science Exploration The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
12 Arthur Conan Doyle Science Data It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
13 Arthur Conan Doyle Science Data It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
14 Arthur Conan Doyle Science Experimentation Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. (Sherlock Holmes)
15 Ayn Rand Science Exploration Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
16 Bruce Hafen Science Research The democratization of ideas sometimes confuses the reader as to what is true and what is not, as all ideas are presented horizontally and as fact, thus positioning the blogger's flippant opinion alongside the scholar's well-researched dissertation.
17 Buckminster Fuller Science Beauty When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
18 Charles Babbage Science Error On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament] "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
19 Charles L. Brewer Science Environment Heredity deals the cards; environment plays the hand.
20 Edward R. Murrow Science Prejudice Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them
21 Frank lloyd Wright Science Progress If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
22 Galileo Science Truth Facts which at first seem improbable will even on scant explanation drop the cloak which has hidden them, and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
23 Galileo Galilei Science Reason I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
24 Helen Keller Science Analysis Analysis is as destructive of emotion as of the flower which the botanist pulls to pieces.
25 Helen Keller Science Knowledge What Induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?
26 Helen Keller Science Exploration He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.
27 Henry Louis Mencken Science Conscience Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
28 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Science Perseverance Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
29 Ivan Pavlov Science Principles Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.
30 Jim Collins Science Skepticism As one of my favorite professors once said, 'The best students are those who never quite believe their professors.'
31 Louis Pasteur Science Luck Chance favors the prepared mind.
32 Mark Twain Science Ignorance We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
33 Oriental Proverb Science Curiosity One who believes himself to have all the answers certainly hasn't asked all the questions.
34 Ralph Waldo Emerson Science Exploration Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
35 Ralph Waldo Emerson Science Inspiration None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
36 Rene Descartes Science Progress Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
37 Sir Isaac Newton Science Progress If I have seen farther than others it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
38 Thomas Edison Science Progress Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress.
39 Thomas Edison Science Experimentation I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
40 Unknown Science Truth Popularity is never a test of truth.
41 Wernher Von Braun Science Research Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.