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| • | "Order is to chaos, as mathematics is to science." - Benzi K. Ahamed |
| • | "All science is either physics or stamp collecting." - Ernest Rutherford |
| • | "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - Edsger Dijkstra |
| • | "Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience." - Albert Einstein |
| • | "In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore ... in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long ... seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. ... There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact." - Mark Twain |
| • | "There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors." - Robert Oppenheimer |
| • | "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." - Albert Einstein |
| • | "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." - Albert Einstein |
| • | "To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge." - Copernicus |
| • | "...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought." - Albert Einstein |
| • | "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it." - Albert Einstein |
| • | "Science is all a metaphor." - Timothy Leary |
| • | "Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do." - Donald Knuth |
| • | "Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification." - Karl Popper |
| • | "The great tragedy of Science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." - Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), Presidential Address at the British Association for 1870, "Biogenesis and Abiogenesis" (Collected Essays, vol. 8, p. 229) [Common variant: "... by an ugly little fact."] |
| • | "Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors." - Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), Friday evening discourse at the Royal Institution 1880, "On the Coming of Age of the Origin of Species" (Collected Essays, vol. 2, p. 227) |
| • | "Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to infer a process only from its modern results, then we are usually stymied or reduced to speculation about probabilities. For many roads lead to almost any Rome." – Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002), "The Panda's Thumb", Senseless Signs of History (1980) |
| • | "The story of a theory's failure often strikes readers as sad and unsatisfying. Since science thrives on self-correction, we who practice this most challenging of human arts do not share such a feeling. We may be unhappy if a favored hypothesis loses or chagrined if theories that we proposed prove inadequate. But refutation almost always contains positive lessons that overwhelm disappointment, even when [...] no new and comprehensive theory has yet filled the void." - Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002), "Bully for Brontosaurus", The Face of Miranda (1991) |
| • | "Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision." - Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002), "Eight Little Piggies", More Light on Leaves (1993) |
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