All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon. Roger Bacon
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. Tom Hanks
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. Jean Rostand
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. Ashley Montagu
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. Charles Kettering
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. Wernher von Braun
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. John von Neumann
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. Linus Pauling
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. Wilhelm Reich
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. Edward Teller
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. Lewis Thomas
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. Henry Adams
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution. Jay Leno
He is so old that his blood type was discontinued. Bill Dana
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness. James D. Watson
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. Hugh Walpole
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. Robert Quillen
There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be. Charles Pierce
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. Walter Lippmann