Famous Quotes About 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.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

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.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

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.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.