For NASA, space is still a high priority. Dan Quayle
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
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
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
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
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. Heinrich Heine
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Arthur M. Schlesinger
I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists. Jacques Yves Cousteau
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. Gertrude Stein
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. Alan Perlis
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. Bruce Feirstein
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
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
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
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. Wernher von Braun
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?' Erwin Chargaff
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
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed. Howard Nemerov
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