Bruce Feirstein

"The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease."

Ashley Montagu

"The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion."

Macneile Dixon

"The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion."

Arnold H. Glasow

"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us."

Paul Valery

"The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning."

Lewis Thomas

"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."

Thomas H. Huxley

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

William Bragg

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

Isaac Asimov

"The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor."

Alvin Toffler

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not."

Gertrude Stein

"The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder."

Albert Einstein

"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart."

Walter Lippmann

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

Isaac Asimov

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow."

Edward Teller

"The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market."

Daniel S. Greenberg

"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."

Mark Russell

"The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled."

Lewis Thomas

"There are no shortcuts in evolution."

Louis D. Brandeis

"There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere."

Isaac Asimov

"There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be."

Charles Pierce

"There was no before the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time."

John D. Barrow

"Touch a scientist and you touch a child."

Ray Bradbury

"Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character."

George Bernard Shaw

"We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more."

Carl G. Jung