Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity."

Wernher von Braun

"People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people."

Charles Kettering

"Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft."

Sam Ervin

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

Albert Einstein

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."

Wernher von Braun

"Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response."

Arthur M. Schlesinger

"Science does not know its debt to imagination."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men."

Jean Rostand

"Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."

Carl Sagan

"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact."

Thomas H. Huxley

"Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic."

Thomas H. Huxley

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."

Adam Smith

"Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question How? but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question Why?"

Erwin Chargaff

"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more."

George Bernard Shaw

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

Albert Einstein

"Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena."

Wilhelm Reich

"Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine."

Richard Selzer

"Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness."

James D. Watson

"That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong!"

Wolfgang Pauli

"The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible."

Ray Bradbury

"The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers."

Lewis Thomas

"The dedicated physician is constantly striving for a balance between personal, human values, scientific realities and the inevitabilities of God's will."

David Allman