You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1. — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%. — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
Scientists should be doing a better job of guarding their own reputations and of the general scientific community. — Michael F. Jacobson Copy Share Image
I truly love science fiction; it's feeling you're something more than your present position in the world. — David Hewlett Copy Share Image
Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight. — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word. — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
I think there really needs to be a culture change because young girls are very interested in math and science, but somewhere… — Peggy Johnson Copy Share Image
The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies. — Wilbur Wright Copy Share Image
The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future. — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today… — William James Mayo Copy Share Image
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“We don't learn anything there [school]. The difference between schoolteachers and philosophers us that school-teachers think they know a lot of stuff… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“POPULATION: None. It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
Only when he has published his ideas and findings has the scientist made his contribution, and only when he has thus made… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether… — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Are we going to do any thinking today, or is it going to be all math? — Philip J. Hanlon Copy Share Image
An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God. — Srinivasa Ramanujan Copy Share Image
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
“Embarrassment has no place in scientific method!” Walter said brusquely.” — Christa Faust Copy Share Image
As a religious priest I find it a very enriching experience to do my scientific research. — George Coyne Copy Share Image
Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong . — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I believe in God because of a personal faith, a faith that is consistent with what I know about science. — William Daniel Phillips Copy Share Image
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth. — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it. — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it. — Edwin Land Copy Share Image