Science Quotes
Human knowledge is doubling every ten years. In the past decade, more scientific knowledge has been created than in all of human history.
The Age of Discovery in science is coming to a close, opening up an Age of Mastery.
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination - but the combination is locked up in the safe.
Sometimes I think we`re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we`re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Proof is derived not through a single piece of evidence, but through that convergence of evidence from numerous lines of inquiry, all of which point to an unmistakable conclusion.
The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.
Data without generalizations are useless; facts without explanatory principles are meaningless. A "theory" is not just someone's opinion or a wild guess made by some scientist. A theory is a well-supported and well-tested generalization that explains a set of observations. Science without theory is useless.
Was there such a thing as an instinctive yearning on the part of intelligent beings to expand outward, to reach the stars, to leave the prison of gravity behind?