Science And Technology Quotes
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There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. (Quote by - Enrico Fermi)
Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best. Life's most soothing things are sweet music and a child's goodnight. (Quote by - Thomas Alva Edison)
I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem. (Quote by - Thomas Alva Edison)
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)
The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice. (Quote by - Anonymous)
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier. (Quote by - Bill Gates)
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. (Quote by - Flip Wilson)
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months. (Quote by - Clifford Stoll)
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. (Quote by - Jacob Bronowski)
If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance. (Quote by - James Gorman)
Each year, it seems, larger and more daunting mountains of text rise from the lush lowlands of visual reproduction. (Quote by - Calvin Tomkins)
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its means. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. (Quote by - Henri Poincaire)
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. (Quote by - Arthur C. Clarke)
All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces. (Quote by - Hermann Helmholtz)
Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. (Quote by - Brian W. Aldiss)
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. (Quote by - Ray Bradbury)
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. (Quote by - Carl Sagan)
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. (Quote by - Ann Landers)
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions. (Quote by - Claude Levi-Strauss)
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. (Quote by - Archimedes, Pappus of Alexandria)
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. (Quote by - Thomas Szasz)
Scientists are the pinheads upon which angels dance. (Quote by - Anonymous)
I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. (Quote by - Orson Welles)
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. (Quote by - Immanuel Kant)
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident and none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They came about by hard work. (Quote by - Thomas Alva Edison)
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. (Quote by - Galileo Galilei)
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology. (Quote by - John Spencer)
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. (Quote by - Richard Feynman)
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. (Quote by - Sir Fred Hoyle)
All scientific discoveries are first recorded on napkins or tablecloths. Engineering advances are drawn inside matchbook covers. Keep supplies of them handy at all times. (Quote by - Anonymous)
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)
Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road. (Quote by - Stewart Brand)
Someday man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power. (Quote by - Thomas Alva Edison)
If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe. (Quote by - Carl Sagan)
Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic. (Quote by - Sir Arthur C. Clarke)
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. (Quote by - Evan Esar)
Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new? (Quote by - Anonymous)
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. (Quote by - George Santayana)
Everything that can be invented, has been invented. (Quote by - Charles H. Duell)
True Science teaches, above all, to doubt, and to be ignorant. (Quote by - Miguel de Unamuno)
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler)
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. (Quote by - Gertrude Stein)
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. (Quote by - E. F. Schumacker)
The Earth is the cradle of mankind, but a man cannot stay in the cradle forever. (Quote by - Immanuel Velikovsky)
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. (Quote by - Carl Sagan)
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. (Quote by - Antoine de Saint)
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..." (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator. (Quote by - Thomas Alva Edison)
The ‘Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. (Quote by - William Gibson)
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. (Quote by - Sir William Bragg)
The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)
In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances. (Quote by - Herbert Spencer)
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. (Quote by - Thomas Alva Edison)
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. (Quote by - Immanuel Kant)
If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes? (Quote by - Art Bell)
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. (Quote by - Wernher Von Braun)
The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church. (Quote by - Ferdinand Magellan)
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. (Quote by - Carl Sagan)
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge. (Quote by - Daniel J. Boorstin)
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. (Quote by - Carl Sagan)
The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. (Quote by - T.S. Eliot)
The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster. (Quote by - Adam Smith)
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. (Quote by - E. F. Schumacher)
If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing. (Quote by - Anon)
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. (Quote by - Herbert Simon)
Black holes are where God divided by zero. (Quote by - Steven Wright)
I can't understand a word you say. And you're poorly dressed. You must be some sort of technology expert. Or a rodeo clown. (Quote by - Dilbert's Pointy Haired Boss)
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. (Quote by - Niels Bohr)
What is now proved was once only imagined. (Quote by - William Blake)
The advancement of the arts, from year to year, taxes our credulity and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end. (Quote by - Henry L. Ellsworth)
We call it a threefer, it can leave you dead as a doornail at high doses. It can kill you at moderate amounts over a long period. And it's a carcinogen at low levels. (Quote by - Bill Hinkley)
