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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. ~Albert Einstein

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If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. ~Robert Quillen

Great scientific discoveries have been made by men seeking to verify quite erroneous theories about the nature of things. ~Aldous Huxley, "Wordsworth in the Tropics"

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. ~Walter Lippmann

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. ~Max Gluckman, Politics, Law and Ritual, 1965

Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. ~Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis, 1905

Scientists should always state the opinions upon which their facts are based. ~Author Unknown

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. ~Jean Rostand

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. ~John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty, 1929

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. ~William Lawrence Bragg

Science does not know its debt to imagination. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. ~Edward Teller

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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..." ~Isaac Asimov

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. ~Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life, 1913

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. ~Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776

Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. ~Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends, 1972

A biophysicist talks physics to the biologists and biology to the physicists, but then he meets another biophysicist, they just discuss women. ~Author Unknown

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer. ~Thomas Browne

I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe. ~Ken Jenkins

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. ~Albert Einstein

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

Jimmy Carter

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

Wernher von Braun

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Richard P. Feynman

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Gertrude Stein

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

Alfred North Whitehead

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

Jesse James Garrett

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

- Arthur C. Clarke

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)

The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.

James D. Watson

To know the brain … is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.

Emerson M. Pugh

The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.

Wilder Penfield

The brain presents two seemingly irreconcilable aspects: It is a material body, exhibiting all the physical properties of matter, and it possesses a set of faculties and attributes, collectively called mind, that are not found in any other physical system.

Erich Harth

Swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern — always a meaningful pattern — though never an abiding one.

Charles Sherrington

One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge.

Richard L. Gregory

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

- Richard Dawkins

A key issue in developmental biology at that time was the problem of how cells underwent differentiation, with most workers concentrating on explanations in terms of changes in enzyme and gene regulation.

- Paul Nurse

When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.

- Daniel Goleman

Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century.

- David Chalmers

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

- Leon Kass

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