Quotes on Science

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

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

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.

Nature tells every secret once.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

Man is not a machine, ... although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus. .... No other organism, and certainly no computer, can be made to confront genuine human problems in human terms. ... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the future, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns.

Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're missing them.

For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling.

Bread has been made (indifferent) from potatoes;_x000D_ _x000D_ And galvanism has set some corpses grinning,_x000D_ _x000D_ But has not answer'd like the apparatus_x000D_ _x000D_ Of the Humane Society's beginning,_x000D_ _x000D_ By which men are unsuffocated gratis:_x000D_ _x000D_ What wondrous new machines have late been spinning.

The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.