There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest. – Rudolph Ladenburg
Malevolent criticisms will not disturb my peace of mind, I shall take no notice of them, however carefully they may be dressed up in the garb of science. – Sebastian Kneipp, 1889, translated from German, introduction to Thus Shalt Thou
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own. – Bertrand Russell, What I Believe, 1925
All science is either physics or stamp collecting. – Ernest Rutherford
Science is the record of dead religions. – Oscar Wilde
Physics is geometric proof on steroids. – S.A. Sachs
Ethics and Science need to shake hands. – Richard Clarke Cabot
Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics. – Steven Molaro and Daley Haggar, The Big Bang Theory, “The Killer Robot Instabili
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. – Albert Einstein
DNA was the first three-dimensional Xerox machine. – Kenneth Boulding, “Energy and the Environment,” Beasts, Ballads, and Bouldingism
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. – Hugh Walpole
Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry. – John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy, 1920
Science is simply common sense at its best. – Thomas Huxley
He whose science exceedeth his sense, perisheth by his ignorance. – Old saying
The microwave oven is the consolation prize in our struggle to understand physics. – Jason Love
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them. – Karl Friedrich Gauss
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. – Thomas Henry Huxley
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. – Mike Adams
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. – Celia Green, The Decline and Fall of Science, 1972
When gravity calls, something falls. – J.L.W. Brooks
