Quotes on Science

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.

You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

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 paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single fact took the scientific world by storm.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.

There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.

Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, _x000D_ Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit _x000D_ Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, _x000D_ Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.