“The Church has been reproached with endeavouring to appropriate to itself all those professorships in our Universities which are connected with science: it is however certain that the larger portion of these ill-remunerated offices have been filled by clergymen.”— Charles Babbage, amazon.com
“In the last few decades, a terribly pernicious rumor has been circulated by the press. It claims, exhibiting a level of stupidity heretofore considered impossible, that a human being could crawl through the arteries of a blue whale. Of course, nothing could be farther from the truth. I do not know w…”— Jacques Cousteau, amazon.com
“Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.”— Edmund Hillary, amazon.com
“Maybe one of the most heartening findings from the psychology of pleasure is there’s more to looking good than your physical appearance. If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else t…”— Paul Bloom, ted.com
“Thus, as far as he is a scientific man, as far as he knows anything, he is a materialist; outside his science, in spheres about which he knows nothing, he translates his ignorance into Greek and calls it agnosticism.”— Friedrich Engels, amazon.com
“Philosophy … is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learned to separate them.”— John Desmond Bernal, amazon.com
“Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“Mind has come up with this brilliant way of looking at the world — science — but it can’t look at itself. Science has no place for the mind. The whole of our science is based upon empirical, repeatable experiments. Whereas thought is not in that category, you can’t take thought into a laboratory. Th…”— Alan Moore, en.wikiquote.org
“An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.”— Max Planck, amazon.com
“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance”— Hippocrates, amazon.com
“Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.”— Hippocrates, amazon.com
“If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.”— Ernest Rutherford, en.wikiquote.org
“The beauty of science is that people actually change their minds based on new evidence.”— Darrel W. Ray, amazon.com
“Love lasts about seven years. That’s how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.”— Françoise Sagan, amazon.com