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

~Ad
am Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. ~Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Li

fe, 1913

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most disco
veries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..." ~Isaac Asimov

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless fou

nd guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It
is guilty, until found effective. ~Edward Teller

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. ~Wernher Von Braun

Science does not know its debt to imagination. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover
new ways of thinking about them. ~William Lawrence Bragg

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. ~
John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty, 1929

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. ~Jean Rostand

Scientists should always state the opinions upon which their facts are based. ~
Author Unknown

That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong! ~Wolfgang Pauli

Louise: "How did you get here?"

Johnny: "Well, basically, there was this little dot, right? And the dot went b
ang and the bang expanded. Energy formed into matter, matter cooled, matter liv
ed, the amoeba to fish, to fish to fowl, to fowl to frog, to frog to mammal, the
mammal to monkey, to monkey to man, amo amas amat, quid pro quo, memento mori,
ad infinitum, sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under the gril
l till Doomsday."
~From the movie Naked

Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation

of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. ~Henri Poincaré,
Science and Hypothesis, 1905

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond t
he point reached by the genius of the last generation. ~Max Gluckman, Politics,
Law and Ritual, 1965
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the bel
ief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move t
he stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. ~Wal
ter Lippmann

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are deba
ting the best way to use it. ~Alan Valentine

Science is simply common sense at its best. ~Thomas Huxley

Great scientific discoveries have been made by men seeking to verify quite erron
eous theories about the nature of things. ~Aldous Huxley, "Wordsworth in the Tr
opics"

Physics is imagination in a straight jacket. ~John Moffat

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too,
was made out of chaos. ~Robert Quillen

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. ~
Albert Einstein

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to uni
versal truth. ~Evelyn Fox Keller, Reflections on Gender and Science, 1995

The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to ret
hink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it. ~Robert L. Park, in Th
e New York Times, 7 December 1999

The great men of science are supreme artists. ~Martin H. Fischer

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in t

heir essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.
~John Desmond Bernal, The Origin of Life, 1967

Science is the topography of ignorance. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Medical Es

says, 1883