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Sunday, November 1, 2009

Interesting Science Quotes


Enough research will tend to support your theory — Murphy's Law of Research

Art is 'I'; science is 'we' — Claude Bernard (1813-1878)

I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it
— Queen Juliana of the Netherlands

Research is the transformation of money to knowledge. Innovation is the transformation of knowledge to money — Dr. Hans Meixner

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good — Carl Sagan.

There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer — George Polyá (1887—1985)

The 2 most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know — Bertrand Russell (1872—1970), British philosopher

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought — Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893-92), Hungarian-born US biochemist

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification — Karl Popper (1902—1994), Austrian-born British philosopher

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong — Isaac Asimov

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new — Albert Einstein

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking
— Albert Einstein

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man — Elbert Hubbard (1856—1915), US writer

The important thing is not to stop questioning

Source : http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/QuotesScience.html#Biology