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
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. – Charles Kettering
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. – Wernher von Braun
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. – John von Neumann
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. – Linus Pauling
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. – Wilhelm Reich
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. – Edward Teller
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution. – Jay Leno
He is so old that his blood type was discontinued. – Bill Dana
A satellite has no conscience. – Edward R. Murrow
There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be. – Charles Pierce
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief… that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. – Walter Lippmann
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth. – Irving Langmuir
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods. – Leon Battista Alberti
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good. – John Charles Polanyi
Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent. – Donella Meadows
Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft. – Sam Ervin
Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world. – Jane Howard
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. – Martin Henry Fischer
