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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on science

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on science

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov on science

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash on science

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard Shaw on science

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.
Max Planck on science

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov on science

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl Sagan on science

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Marcus Aurelius on science

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
Ray Bradbury on science

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
Ray Bradbury on science

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.
Carl Jung on science

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Wernher von Braun on science

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes on science

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
Niels Bohr on science

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
Max Planck on science

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
Margaret Mead on science

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Isaac Asimov on science

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis Bacon on science

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.
Edward Teller on science