Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question ‘How?’ but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question ‘Why?’
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…’
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow’s speed.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It’s not a miracle; we just decided to go.
Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It’s posing questions and coming up with a method. It’s delving in.
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
There was no ‘before’ the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.
Art is I; science is we.
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.
