Science proverbs

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◆ That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

- Christopher Hitchens99

◆ If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

- Isaac Newton99

◆ Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

- Douglas Adams99

◆ If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

- Albert Einstein99

◆ Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

- Marie Curie99

◆ Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

- Carl Sagan99

◆ The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson99

◆ It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

- Albert Einstein99

◆ Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

- Arthur C. Clarke99

◆ In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

- Bill Watterson99

◆ A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

- Carl Sagan99

◆ If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.

- Douglas Adams99

◆ God does not play dice with the universe.

- Albert Einstein99

◆ For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

- Carl Sagan99