642 quotes found
“The coast redwood is the tallest species of tree on earth. The tallest redwoods today are between 350 and close to 380 feet in height--thirty-five to thirty-eight stories tall. The crown of a tree ...”
“All science is either Physics or stamp-collecting.”
“As far as the laws of Mathematics refer to reality they are not certain and as far as they are certain they do not refer to reality.”
“He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.”
“I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.”
“If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.”
“If the human race wants to go to Hell in a basket technology can help it get there by jet.”
“In science all facts no matter how trivial or banal enjoy democratic equality.”
“Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.”
“Light is the ultimate messenger of the universe.”
“Most science is only high falutin' nature studies.”
“My advice is to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.”
“Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.”
“Reason observation and experience - the Holy Trinity of Science.”
“Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.”
“Science without religion is lame religion without science is blind.”
“Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.”
“The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
“The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.”
“Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen - Science is what scientists do.”
