Science and Technology Quotations |
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Subject |
Quotation |
Source |
| EXCITEMENT | The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' | Isaac Asimov |
| GOOD | If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. | Albert Einstein |
| LIFE | When life is very bad, two things make life worth living - Mozart and quantum mechanics. | Victor Weisskopf |
| SELF-DISCOVERY | You cannot teach a man anything; you can
only help him find it within himself. |
Galileo |
| CONSTRUCTIVISM IN EDUCATION | What I cannot create for myself, I do not
fully understand. |
Richard Feynman |
| QUANTUM MECHANICS | Nobody understands quantum theory. |
Richard Feynman |
| INVESTING AND PEOPLE | I can calculate the motions of heavenly
bodies, but not the madness of people. |
Sir Isaac Newton |
| TRUTH | I want to know God's thoughts... the rest
are details. |
Albert Einstein |
| VALUE | Try not to become a man of success, but
rather try to become a man of value.
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Albert Einstein |
| HUMAN SPIRIT | To confine our attention to terrestrial
matters would be to limit the human spirit. |
Stephen Hawking |
| TRUTH | The difference between truth and fiction: Fiction has to make sense. |
Mark Twain |
| ELECTRICITY | By means of electricity, the world of matter
has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point
of time...The round globe is a vast...brain, instinct with intelligence. |
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851) |
| COMPLEXITY | Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine. |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| ACTION | Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. - |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| ADVANCES IN PHYSICS | It is a tribute to how far we have come in
theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of
money to perform an experiment whose results we cannot predict. |
Stephen Hawking |
| SCIENCE | Equipped with his five senses, man explores
the universe around him and call this adventure science. - Quote submitted
by Mashudah Hashim, Park University |
Edwin Hubble |
| CHANGE | Think how hard it is to change yourself and
you will begin to know how hard it is to change others. - Quote submitted by
Eric Fierst |
Albert Einstein |
| INFINITY | There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who
took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity. |
George Gamow |
| WHY | Why is the universe so close to the dividing
line between collapsing again and expanding indefinitely? ... If the rate of
expansion one second after the big bang had been less by one part in 1010,
the universe would have collapsed after a few million years. If it had been
greater than one part in 1010, the universe would have been essentially
empty after a few million years. |
Stephen Hawking |
| FAILURE | Failure is the opportunity to begin again,
more intelligently. - Quote submitted by Eric Fierst, Park University |
Henry Ford |
| MAGIC | Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic. |
Arthur C. Clarke |
| SCIENTISTS | Those who do not stop asking silly questions
become scientists. |
Physicist Leon Lederman |
| SUPPORT | If I have seen farther, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants. |
Sir Isaac Newton |
| SCIENCE AND RELIGION | Science without religion is lame, religion
without science is blind. |
Albert Einstein |
| BELIEF | It is better to believe than to disbelieve. In so doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility. |
Albert Einstein |
| SENSE, REASON, AND INTELLECT | I do not feel obliged to believe that the
same god who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us
to forgo their use. - Quote submitted by Joni Jaeger, Park University |
Galileo |
| VISIBLE WORLD | The visible world is the invisible
organization of energy. |
Heinz Pagels |
| STAR TRAVEL | We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars. | Carl Sagan |
| ASTROLOGY | It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves. | William Shakespeare |
| PERMISSION | It is easier to ask for forgiveness than to get permission in the Navy. - Quote submitted by Lisa Jones, Park University | Grace Hopper |
| RELATIVITY | Relativity applies to physics, not ethics. | Albert Einstein |
| SCIENCE |
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have. |
Albert Einstein |
| TRUTH |
The opposite of a correct statement is a false
statement. |
Niels Bohr |
| RULE 1 | We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. | Sir Isaac Newton |
| UNIVERSE | Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. | R. Buckminster Fuller |
| WORK |
Hard work, sacrifice, and focus will never show up in tests. |
Lance Armstrong |
| SUPERSTITION |
I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run. |
Babe Ruth |
| INNOVATION | The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. | P. B. Medawar |
| WISDOM | Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. | Immanuel Kant |