Your Ancestors Called it Magic, but You Call it Science. I…

Your ancestors called it magic... -Thor

— Thor

Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Alchemy, Dex called it, which was something to do with magic if you were French.”

— Jenny Downham

Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun…

— Walt Disney

“A surprising fact about the magician Bernard Kornblum, Joe remembered, was that he believed in magic. Not in the so-called magic of candles, pentagrams,…

— Michael Chabon

I didn't give that name, the Rubik's Cube, and I called it Magic Cube because it's magic.

— Erno Rubik

...but you call it science. I come from a land where they are one and the same. -Thor

— Thor

“Science, I had come to learn, is as political, competitive, and fierce a career as you can find, full of the temptation to find…

— Paul Kalanithi

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

— Earl Wilson

Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for…

— David Bressoud

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around.…

— James Lovelock

Those of us engaged in the practice of science come to feel a certain reverence for it, engendered by its demonstrable power to dissect,…

— Carolyn Porco

I [do not know] when the end of science will come. ... What I do know is that our species is dumber than we…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“William knows that science and magic are the same thing; magic is only science that hasn’t been explained yet.”

— Joshilyn Jackson

There's a lot of magic in science, so to speak.

— Larry Wilmore