Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
The proper study of mankind is the science of design.
Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
Chemical waste products are the droppings of science.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.
Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.
Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
Science is science, but a girl MUST get her hair done.
Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.
It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries
The earth is large and old enough to teach us modesty.
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
Physics is to mathematics what sex is to masturbation.
The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.
Engineering is the art or science of making practical.
Someone has said that all the great jugglers are dead.
Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.
Tomorrow may be fair, however stormy the sky of today.
We really try to have only one new particle per paper.
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.
Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies.
No-one really thought of fission before its discovery.
The world is a very complicated place, as babies know.
Doing an experiment is not more important than writing.
Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.
If your news must be bad, tell it soberly and promptly.
I give them experiments and they respond with speeches.
For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
Science is going to be revolutionized by AI assistants.
We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.
The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.
A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.
The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.
The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
Science is the systematic classification of experience.
All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.
The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.