Jacques Yves Cousteau

"I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads."

George Santayana

"I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for."

James H. Boren

"I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"I look forward to the day when a mongolian idiot, treated biochemically, becomes a successful geneticist."

Jerome Lejeune

"I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel."

E. B. White

"If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics."

Francis Bacon

"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Robert Quillen

"In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last."

Hugh Walpole

"In science, fact can only mean confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent. I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms."

Stephen Jay Gould

"Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."

Russell Baker

"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young."

Konrad Lorenz

"It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet."

Wernher von Braun

"It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us."

Newt Gingrich

"Leave the atom alone."

E. Y. Harburg

"Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, cell biologists are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite symmetry, dramas of violence and death, mobility, self-sacrifice and, yes, rococo sex."

Lorraine Lee Cudmore

"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."

Albert Einstein

"Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it."

Edmund Hillary

"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."

Marcus Aurelius

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

Henry B. Adams

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

Marie Curie

"Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed."

Howard Nemerov

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

Albert Einstein