Quotes on Funny Science

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.

The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.

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 disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.

The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.