Science quotations

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◆ Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

- Robert A. Heinlein99

◆ The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

- Edward Teller99

◆ Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

- Mary Kay Ash99

◆ The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

- Arnold H. Glasow99

◆ Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

- Wernher von Braun99

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

- Isaac Asimov99

◆ All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

- Roger Bacon99

◆ We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

- Carl Sagan99

◆ Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

- Stephen Hawking99

◆ We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

- Carl Jung99

◆ Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

- George Bernard Shaw99

◆ The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

- Bruce Feirstein99

◆ To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

- Isaac Newton99

◆ Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.99

◆ If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

- Francis Bacon99