science

"Interviewer: Didn't Sagan want to believe?Druyan: he didn't want to believe. he wanted to know."

"Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings."

"لا توجد أي دولة في العالم انطلقت في المجال التكنولوجي دون الاعتماد على اللغة الأم."

"The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind."

"We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment."

"In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

"Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago."

"Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say."

"Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't even know they're connected. Father and Lily were two sides of the same coin, I've decided, and maybe I am the space in between."

"If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble."

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."

"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe."

"DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created."

"John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe[Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal]"

"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different."

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

"If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part."

"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights."

"Order is heaven's first law."