Archive for the ‘Science’ Category

John D. Barrow on Science

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

There was no before the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.

- John D. Barrow

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Oliver Wendell Holmes on Science

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Albert Einstein on Science

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

- Albert Einstein

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Rene Descartes on Science

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

- Rene Descartes

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Tom Hanks on Science

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It’s not a miracle; we just decided to go.

- Tom Hanks

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Ashley Montagu on Science

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

- Ashley Montagu

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Isaac Asimov on Science

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

- Isaac Asimov

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George William Curtis on Science

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

- George William Curtis

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Wernher von Braun on Science

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

- Wernher von Braun

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George William Curtis on Science

Friday, July 18th, 2008

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

- George William Curtis

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