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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. -Isaac Asimov
Never memorize something that you can look up. -Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -Albert Einstein
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it -Albert Einstein
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -Carl Sagan
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. - Albert Einstein
Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you. - Terry Pratchett
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. -Stephen Hawking
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -Niels Bohr
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand. -Dan Brown
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. -Terry Pratchet
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens
Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler. -Albert Einstein
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. -Sarah Williams
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. -Charles Darwin
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter -John Keats
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. -Marie Curie
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. -Carl Sagan
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. - Isaac Newton
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. - Carl Sagan
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. -Carl Sagan
So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die. -Douglas Adams
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. - Buckminster Fuller
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. -Carl Sagan
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God. -Abraham Lincoln
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice. -Michael Crichton
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat. - Douglas Adams
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. -Ray Bradbury
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. -Albert Einstein
God does not play dice with the universe. -Albert Einstein
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. - Martin Luther King
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. -Albert Einstein
I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. - Abraham Maslow
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then - George Orwell
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. - Albert Einstein
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. -Galileo Galilei
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. -Galileo Galilei
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. -Douglas Adams
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. -Richard P. Feynman
We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good. - Carl Sagan
Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten. -Terry Pratchett, Mort
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard P. Feynman
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. -Will Durant
If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism. -Albert Einstein
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -Niels Bohr
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. -Nikola Tesla
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. -Jules Verne
Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry... -Thomas Jefferson
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. -Carl Sagan
Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves. -Dan Brown
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -Clive James
[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence. -Christopher Hitchens
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt. - Richard P. Feynman
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
Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep. -A P J Abdul Kalam
There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person. - Bill Bryson
How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean. -Arthur C. Clarke
Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life. -John Lubbock
[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth. -Stephen W. Hawking
A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certain eminent historian of science. At the time I could only regard him with tolerant condescension. - Isaac Asimov, Adding a Dimension
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. -Carl Sagan
God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs. -Michael Crichton
I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves. -Carl Sagan
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change. - H.G. Wells
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas A. Edison
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings. -Victor Stenger
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere. -Sigmund Freud
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power. -Bertrand Russell
He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing. -Epicurus
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then th -Rene Descartes
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. -Werner Heisenberg
I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime -Neil deGrasse Tyson
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - Galileo Galilei
There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe. -Neil deGrasse Tyson
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress. - Richard P. Feynman
Millions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why -Bernard M. Baruch
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. -Maurice Maeterlinck
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part. -Richard P. Feynman
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. -Carl Sagan
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. -Hippocrates
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a poli -Edgar Mitchell
It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you. -Bill Bryson
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself. -Rachel Carson
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. - Carl Sagan
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion. -Isaac Newton
You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into. -Ben Goldacre, Bad Science
If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future -Stephen Hawking
The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death. -Kurt Vonnegut
It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom. -Albert Einstein
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance. - Neil DeGrasse Tyson
When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir -John Maynard Keynes
Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions. -Arthur Schopenhauer
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. -Isaac Asimov
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works. -Stephen Hawking
A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth. -Albert Einstein
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. -Adam Smith
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. - Leo Tolstoy
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. - Baruch Spinoza
I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS -Neil deGrasse Tyson
Wonder is the seed of knowledge - Francis Bacon
Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature. - St. Augustine
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. -Alan Turing
The human spirit must prevail over technology. -Albert Einstein
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. -Albert Einstein
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. -Albert Einstein
