Science
Bertrand Russell on Mathematics
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.”
Arthur C. Clarke on Science Fiction
“Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.”
Willie Tyler on Lightning
“The reason lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn’t there the second time.”
William J. Broad on the Universe
“The crux… is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.”
John F. Kennedy on Politics
“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”
Nikola Tesla on Scientists
“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
Ambrose Bierce on Science
“There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.”
Bill Watterson on Intelligent Life
“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Albert Einstein on Love
“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.”
Louis Pasteur on Science
“There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.”
Stephen Hawking on Science
“If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.”
William Gibson on Futurism
“The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.”
Arthur Koestler on Discovery
“The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.”
Frank Borman on Humanity and Progress
“Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.”
Robert Bakker on Taxes
“I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.”
Blore’s Razor
“Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.”
H. P. Lovecraft Cynical Quote
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”
Carl Sagan on Intelligence
“The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
Galileo Galilei on Science
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
Albert Einstein on Wisdom at Solving Problems
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
Martin Luther King Jr. on Science
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
Indira Gandhi on Science
“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.”
Isaac Newton on Science
“I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.”
Frank Herbert on Knowledge
“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”
Poul Anderson on Problems
“I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.”