Science quotations
There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to his opinion as Fermi.
- Louis Alvarez
There once was a brainy baboon,
Who always breathed down a bassoon,
For he said, "It appears
That in billions of years
I shall certainly hit on a tune."
- Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.
- Elbert Hubbard
What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.
- Nikita Kruschev
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
- Wernher von Braun
The man in the moon isn't real. It's just a photo that the man who went there, put. Of himself.
- Alison, age 6.
ETA:
The information in our genome was witness to the birth of life on Earth. It bears all the marks of its passage through the ages, all the scars of its evolutionary heritage... Scientists don't know precisely how life began, but the near immortality of information has preserved a story that goes back to the very beginnings of life.
- Charles Seife
- Louis Alvarez
There once was a brainy baboon,
Who always breathed down a bassoon,
For he said, "It appears
That in billions of years
I shall certainly hit on a tune."
- Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.
- Elbert Hubbard
What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.
- Nikita Kruschev
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
- Wernher von Braun
The man in the moon isn't real. It's just a photo that the man who went there, put. Of himself.
- Alison, age 6.
ETA:
The information in our genome was witness to the birth of life on Earth. It bears all the marks of its passage through the ages, all the scars of its evolutionary heritage... Scientists don't know precisely how life began, but the near immortality of information has preserved a story that goes back to the very beginnings of life.
- Charles Seife