“Too much laughter can make a person faint or trigger cataplexy, which makes someone unable to move their muscles.”— Anna Pulley, broadly.vice.com
“See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.”— Galileo Galilei, en.wikiquote.org
“As long as skepticism is based on a sound understanding of science it is invaluable, for that is how science progresses. But poor criticism can lead those who are unfamiliar with the science involved into doubting everything about climate change predictions.”— Tim Flannery, amazon.com
“Science works on the frontier between knowledge and ignorance. We're not afraid to admit what we don't know. There's no shame in that. The only shame is to pretend that we have all the answers.”— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com
“Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher; a community of minds reaching back to antiquity, and forward to the stars.”— Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com
“We know the universe is bigger than we can see. We don’t know how much bigger. So the question is, is it the same everywhere as you go out or is it different?”— Tom Siegfried, theatlantic.com
“The exact Rainbow any of us sees in the sky is entirely our own -- a personal, yet communal gift from the laws of optics.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“Science Literacy is not only about what you know, it's about your depth of curiosity, and your capacity to evaluate evidence.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“Joey: Hey, Ross, I got a science question: If the Homo sapiens were, in fact, HOMO sapiens...is that why they're extinct? Ross: Joey, Homo sapiens are PEOPLE. Joey: Hey, I'm not judgin'!”— Alexa Junge, Joey Tribbiani, Matt LeBlanc, imdb.com
“They are strong enough to contain the massive viral genome packed inside, but bust open easily when its time to let the genome out.”— Jason Daley, smithsonianmag.com
“The more sophisticated science becomes, the harder it is to communicate results.”— James Somers, theatlantic.com
“The simplest answer is that we don't know. In fact, it remains one of the biggest unanswered problems of modern physics.”— Don Lincoln, cnn.com
“Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”— Michael Crichton, David Koepp, Ian Malcolm, Jeff Goldblum, amazon.com
“When is modern science gonna find a cure for a woman’s mouth?”— Jon Pollack, Dr. Leo Spaceman, Chris Parnell, imdb.com
“Science was my most favorite subject. Especially the Old Testament.”— Robert Carlock, Jack Burditt, Kenneth Parcell, Jack Mcbrayer, imdb.com
“The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of Observations on material and obvious things.”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“For the Members of the Assembly having before their eys so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part of mankind has so long wandred, because they rely'd upon the strength of humane Reason alone, have begun anew to correct all Hypotheses by sense, as Seamen do their…”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“Oh, to be sure, there is much we do not understand. The years pass in their hundreds and their thousands, and what does any man see of life but a few summers, a few winters? We look at mountains and call them eternal, and so they seem … but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers chan…”— George R. R. Martin, Maester Luwin, amazon.com
“Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.”— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org
“By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible world discovered to the understanding.”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com