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You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
Heinrich Heine on science

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
Arthur M. Schlesinger on science

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
Jacques Yves Cousteau on science

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Gertrude Stein on science

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan Perlis on science

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Bruce Feirstein on science

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
Alfred Hitchcock on science

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery on science

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould on science

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
Wernher von Braun on science

There are no shortcuts in evolution.
Louis D. Brandeis on science

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'
Erwin Chargaff on science

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
W. H. Auden on science

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
Howard Nemerov on science

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
Edmund Hillary on science

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 on science

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 on science

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
Jean Rostand on science

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 on science

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
Charles Kettering on science