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Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.
Sep 10, 2025
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
If you think research is expensive, try disease!
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences, but especially so in physics, in which the results of quantum mechanics and relativity theory have opened up two very different paths for physicists to pursue. They may lead us - to put it in extreme terms - to the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each of us to decide which path to take.
Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.
If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.
I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.
The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
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.
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
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