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 | The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 49 likes |
 | Love is a matter of chemistry, but sex is a matter of physics. — Alexandre Dumas, 1802-1870, French writer 22 likes |
| The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!”, but “That's funny …” — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 19 likes |
 | The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 17 likes |
 | Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 14 likes |
 | Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 12 likes |
 | Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. — Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, British scientist 12 likes |
| Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 11 likes |
| The foundation of all technology is fire. — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 11 likes |
 | The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention. — Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947, British philosopher & mathematician 9 likes |
| Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces the death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 8 likes |
 | When you finally understand the universe, it will not only be stranger than you imagine, it will be stranger than you can imagine. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 8 likes |
| Magic's just science that we don't understand yet. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 7 likes |
| Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 7 likes |
 | Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. Science invites us to let the facts in, even when they don’t conform to our preconceptions. — Carl Sagan, 1934-1996, American astronomer 7 likes |
 | The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. — Ernest Renan, 1823-1892, French philosopher & historian 7 likes |
 | Science is magic that works. — Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007, American writer 6 likes |
| We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. — Carl Sagan, 1934-1996, American astronomer 6 likes |
| Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 6 likes |
 | Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity. — Arthur Koestler, 1905-1983, Hungarian-British writer 6 likes |
| Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor — but they have few followers now. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 6 likes |
 | Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 5 likes |
 | The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence. — Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007, French intellectual 5 likes |
 | Science is the topography of ignorance. — Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer 5 likes |
 | There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 5 likes |
| Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 5 likes |
 | Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. — Jules Verne, 1826-1905, French writer 5 likes |
| When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean—that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses—that is science. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 4 likes |
 | Hypotheses are scaffoldings erected in front of a building and then dismantled when the building is finished. They are indispensable for the workman; but you mustn't mistake the scaffolding for the building. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 4 likes |
 | Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 4 likes |
 | It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 4 likes |
 | In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid. — Dave Barry, 1947-, American journalist 3 likes |
| 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. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 3 likes |
| We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 3 likes |
 | Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know. — Joseph Roux, 1834-1905, French clergyman & poet 3 likes |
| The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 3 likes |
 | In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 3 likes |
 | Science is a collection of successful recipes. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 3 likes |
 | Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that’s where the light is. It has no other choice. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist 3 likes |
| Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. — Arthur Koestler, 1905-1983, Hungarian-British writer 3 likes |
| All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 2 likes |
 | Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. — Martin Luther King, 1929-1968, American leader in the Civil Rights Movement 2 likes |
 | Where the frontier of science once was is now the center. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 2 likes |
| The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 2 likes |
| Alas! A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections — a mere heart of stone. — Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, British scientist 2 likes |
 | There is no science without fancy and no art without fact. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 2 likes |
| Philosophy is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 2 likes |
 | If philosophy does not resolve any scientific problem, science, in its turn, does not resolve any philosophical problem. |
 | Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. |
| Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little: it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. |
| Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. |
| Science enriches the mind. Literature enriches the personality. |
 | Science finds cures more easily than answers. |
| A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays, a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in. |
| Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts. |
 | The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set some limit on infinite error. |
| Science knows only one commandment: contribute to science. |
 | The origin of all science is in the desire to know causes; and the origin of all false science and imposture is in the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance. |
 | The essence of technology is by no means anything technological. |
| Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house, or whether a torturer uses it to crush somebody's skull. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist |
 | Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods. |
 | The most human thing about us is our technology. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
| Mysticism is just tomorrow’s science dreamed today. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
| As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the splitting up of the world into the realms of matter and mind, and the identification of “mind” with conscious thinking. |
 | I am trying to awake the energy contained in the air. These are the main sources of energy. What is considered as empty space is just a manifestation of matter that is not awakened. |
| Our entire biological system, the brain, and the Earth itself, work on the same frequencies. |
| Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work. |
| Myth is ancient science; science is modern myth. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face. |
 | True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world. |
| Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man. |
| Why deceive ourselves? Science has not answered a single important question. |
Stupid Quotes
 | That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them? — Rutherford B. Hayes, 1822-1893, American President [1877-1881] ( to Alexander Graham Bell after a demonstration of the telephone) 5 likes |
 | Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. — Lord Kelvin, 1824-1907, English scientist 3 likes |
 | Everything that can be invented has been invented. — Charles H. Duel, commissioner of the US Patent & Trademark Office (1898-1901) 2 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth. Δως μοι πα στω και ταν γαν κινάσω. — Archimedes, 287-212 BC, Ancient Greek mathematician & inventor 10 likes |
 | The beginning of everything is atoms and void, and everything else is perception. Αρχάς είναι των όλων ατόμους και κενόν, τα δ’ άλλα πάντα νενομίσθαι. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 10 likes |
Special Quotes
 | Nicolaus Copernicus of Toruń, who moved the Earth, held the Sun and the heavens. — Inscription on the monument of Copernicus in his hometown Toruń, Poland 2 likes |
