The repository contains 25 quotes in the category “Science and Technology.”
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Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.
Wernher von Braun
1912 — 1977
If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?
Art Bell
1945 —
What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake
1757 — 1827
Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.
Sir Arthur C. Clarke
1917 — 2008
The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.
Ferdinand Magellan
1480 — 1521
Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious things in the least obvious way.
George Pólya
1887 — 1985
The Earth is the cradle of mankind, but a man cannot stay in the cradle forever.
Immanuel Velikovsky
1895 — 1979
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Steven Wright
1955 —
An ecologist is a voice crying over the wilderness.
In 1938 to State Department operative and former White Sox catcher Moe Berg, who offered to trade his knowledge of baseball for Einstein's knowledge of mathematics:
I think you would learn mathematics faster.
Albert Einstein
1879 — 1955
Metallurgy: the study of how to keep people from being allergic to metals.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant
1724 — 1804
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its means.
Samuel Butler
1835 — 1902
There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery.
Enrico Fermi
1901 — 1954
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.
Arthur Koestler
1905 — 1983
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard
1856 — 1915
Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
Sir Fred Hoyle
1915 — 2001
If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan
1934 — 1996
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
1885 — 1962
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Carl Sagan
1934 — 1996
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