Science sayings

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◆ The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

- Lewis Thomas99

◆ Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

- Marcus Aurelius99

◆ The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

- Irving Langmuir99

◆ Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

- Arthur M. Schlesinger99

◆ Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

- Louis Pasteur99

◆ What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

- Jacques Yves Cousteau99

◆ When I die I want my body to donate for research, but more specifically to a scientist who is working on bringing dead bodies back to life.

- Nikhil Saluja99

◆ The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable

- HL Mencken99

◆ There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been answered. In general, these are the questions that have not yet been posed.

- Linus Pauling99

◆ If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.

- Emerson M Pugh99

◆ Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think

- Werner Heisenberg99

◆ Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but thats not why we do it.

- Richard Feynman99

◆ On the sixth day, God created the platypus. And God said: lets see the evolutionists try and figure this one out.

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◆ The goal of science and engineering is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice.

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◆ I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing....

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