science

"The difference between me and a scientist is a little word called “Science.” I don’t believe in it. Science has yet to validate my disbelief in Bigfoot."

"Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details."

"The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as it was tens of thousands of years before the back. But typical events in galactic dynamics occupy tens of millions of years, so the error in thinking of an image of a galaxy as frozen in one moment of time is small."

"It was during my enchanted days of travel that the idea came to me, which, through the years, has come into my thoughts again and again and always happily—the idea that geology is the music of the earth."

"Science tells me God must exist.My mind tells me I'll never understand God.My heart tells me I'm not meant to. [Vittoria Vetra]"

"If you see an antimatter version of yourself running towards you, think twice before embracing."

"The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine."

"Every day, and in every way, I am becoming better and better."

"The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm."

"People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free."

"Have you tried talking to her?""No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don't think that will work?"

"Science doesn’t listen. Science has mice growing out of its ears. Wait, I mean human ears growing out of its mice."

"Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you."

"The atoms of the earth are formed inside of stars. Nothing really dies, everything is transformed."

"Pluto will always be a planet in my book. That’s because my book was published before Pluto was blacklisted by planetary scientists."

"A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil."

"Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve."

"Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?"

"As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms."

"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."