QUOTES QUOTES QUOTES

QUOTES might be good to throw in somewhere. Some are quite relevant, some not so much.

Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. ~Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends, 1972

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. ~William Lawrence Bragg

Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. ~Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis, 1905

Science is simply common sense at its best. ~Thomas Huxley

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. ~Robert Quillen

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. ~Albert Einstein

But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. ~Francis Darwin

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ~Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988

Theory guides. Experiment decides.

An old saying in science, seen attributed to many different persons.

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

Ernest Rutherford (1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson) (1871- 1937) English physicist, born in New Zealand. Nobel prize for chemistry 1908.

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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot (1826-77) English economist, political journalist and critic.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Michelangelo

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke