You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost.
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on.
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that’s part of the game.
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.
There are no shortcuts in evolution.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.
Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.
Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.
Science grows like a weed every year.
The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
