Favorite Science Quotes

[NYSEF816]

I know you all have them!

favorite quotes by/about scientists, about science, the scientific method, etc.

i have thousands but these are probably my favorite:

Niels Bohr: "God not only plays dice, but sometimes he throws them where they cannot be seen"
Einstein: "God does not play dice with the universe"
Bohr: "Do not tell god what to do!"

"The only gratification that science denies us is deception" - Carl Sagan

"Science's permanently revolutionary conviction that the search for truth never ends seemed to him the only approach with sufficient humility to be worthy of the universe that it revealed" - Ann Druyan on Carl Sagan

[Malu tek tek]

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Thomas Dekker

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

Robert Heinlein

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

Henry Louis Mencken

[Grif]

The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that such complexity can arise not only out of such simplicity, but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of how that might have happened, it's just wonderful. And . . . the opportunity to spend 70 or 80 years of your life in such a universe is time well spent as far as I am concerned.

-Douglas Adams

[Prometheus]

"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds"...Robert Oppenheimer, after they detonated "Trinity" at Alamogordo in July 1945.

[ateyo 'uniltiranyu]

For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions, and by the depth of our answers.

-Carl Sagan

[NYSEF816]

For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions, and by the depth of our answers.

-Carl Sagan

if this were facebook, i would "Like" this

[ateyo 'uniltiranyu]

if this were facebook, i would "Like" this

I second that. Carl Sagan was truly one of the greatest minds/visionaries of modern science.

[Spock]

I think i've got the quote to rule them all.

"All the viruses, they love us, they love to be inside us" - My science teacher.

[OelNgatiKameie]

In response; "I like God do not play with dice and do not believe in Coincidence"

“I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong”

~O.N.K.

[Human No More]

Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
- Richard P. Feynman

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov

When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.
Wilson Mizner

"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."
Richard Dawkins

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Isaac Asimov