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
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
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. Isaac Asimov
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. Francis Bacon
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
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. Thomas Huxley
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
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas Huxley
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. Mark Russell
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. Hippocrates
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
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. Adam Smith
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
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. Thomas Huxley
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. E. B. White
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
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
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. George Santayana
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. John Dewey