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Science Quotes by Mark Twain
- When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how…
- In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens are brothers and…
- We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have…
- If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost…
- There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.
- The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between…
- Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping. . . you'd see the ax flash and…
- That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of…
- In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period…
- I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.
- Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
- Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
- It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
- Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?
- There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
- We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much…
- I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.
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