Science Quotes
The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely.
Alan TuringAlan Turing Science advances funeral by funeral.
Max PlanckMax Planck It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
Linus PaulingLinus Pauling Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: ‘Ye must have faith.’
Max PlanckMax Planck Research is creating new knowledge.
Neil ArmstrongNeil Armstrong You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
Alan WattsAlan Watts Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
Galileo GalileiGalileo Galilei All things happen by virtue of necessity.
DemocritusDemocritus Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
Karl PopperKarl Popper Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.
Sharon SalzbergSharon Salzberg An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.
Max PlanckMax Planck Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
Jules VerneJules Verne