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- There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly…
- In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
- 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…
- The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear…
- Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
- It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in.…
- Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
- Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting…
- We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
- 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.
- What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
- Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they…
- Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of…
- The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking…
More Science Quotes
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- 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 Ash
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov