Touch a scientist and you touch a child. – Ray Bradbury
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. – Rene Descartes
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
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. – Arnold H. Glasow
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
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
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
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
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
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
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. – Wernher von Braun
There are no shortcuts in evolution. – Louis D. Brandeis
