Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. Thomas Huxley on science
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. Louis Pasteur on science
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas Huxley on science
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. Mark Russell on science
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. Hippocrates on science
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. Konrad Lorenz on science
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. Adam Smith on science
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. Arnold H. Glasow on science
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. Jacques Yves Cousteau on science
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. Thomas Huxley on science
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. E. B. White on science
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. Stephen Jay Gould on science
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty. Adam Smith on science
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. George Santayana on science
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. John Dewey on science
For NASA, space is still a high priority. Dan Quayle on science
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. Oliver Wendell Holmes on science
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. Oliver Wendell Holmes on science
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Arthur C. Clarke on science
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. Russell Baker on science