Science
Albert Einstein on Humanity
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
Thomas H. Huxley on Science
“The great tragedy of Science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
Edsger Dijkstra on Computers
“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”
R. Buckminster Fuller on Science
“Everything you’ve learned in school as ‘obvious’ becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There’s not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.”
Thomas A. Edison on Failure
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
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.”
Isaac Asimov on Knowledge
“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”
Peter Borden on Science
“Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.”
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.”
Albert Einstein on Science
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
Marie Curie on Science & Understanding
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
Douglas Adams on the Universe
“There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
Albert Einstein on Solving Problems
“The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.”
John Sladek on the Future
“The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.”
Galileo Galilei on Science
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
George Bernard Shaw on Education
“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”
R. Buckminster Fuller on Technology
“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”
Albert Einstein on Imagination
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
Albert Einstein on Education
“I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”
Isaac Asimov on Computers
“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”
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.”
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.”
Philip K. Dick on Reality
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
Douglas Adams on Society
“Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules”
Albert Einstein on Mistakes
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.“