Science Quote by Christa Faust

“In the real world irrational things happened, impossible coincidences happened, because probability required that coincidences rarely, but not never, occur.”

— Orson Scott Card

There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the condensation of a…

— Eugene Wigner

I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery.

— Nicholas G. Carr

“There is no such thing as an accident. That's what science is all about. (...) There are only patterns we don't yet recognize.”

— Tad Williams

Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made it remarkable…

— Peter Medawar

Events in a single human lifetime are remarkable. Events from all human lifetimes are inconceivable.

— Bill Loguidice

The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit!

— John Pringle Nichol

“A myth has been well described as something that in some sense happened once—but that also happens all the time. It is about timeless,…

— Karen Armstrong

“And this happened to be a bizarre age, a strange time when great numbers of people believed every manipulative junk-science claim, dreading armageddons of…

— Dean Koontz

“There is a further trouble; no matter how meticulous the scientist, he or she cannot be separated from the experiment itself. Impossible to detach…

— Jeanette Winterson

Yes, we were amazed when that happened. It was a real joke to us. Konrad Lueg and I did a Happening, and we used…

— Gerhard Richter

“Standing in the middle between the idea of an event and the actual event, a strange kind of physical reality just in the middle…

— Heisenberg