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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
Wernher von Braun on science

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
John von Neumann on science

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
Linus Pauling on science

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
Wilhelm Reich on science

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
Edward Teller on science

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 on science

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry Adams on science

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 on science

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.
Bill Dana on science

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 on science

A satellite has no conscience.
Edward R. Murrow on science

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Hugh Walpole on science

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
Robert Quillen on science

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 on science

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 on science

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
Irving Langmuir on science

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
Leon Battista Alberti on science

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
Alvin Toffler on science

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
John Charles Polanyi on science

Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.
Mike Pence on science