Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
-Bertrand Russell

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
-Louis Pasteur

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
-John Dewey

Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.
-Gary Larson cartoon caption

The great tragedy of Science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
-Thomas H. Huxley

The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws.
-Peter Kapitza

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.
-Harrison Ford, as Indiana Jones

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
-M. Cartmill

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.
-Robert King Merton

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.
-Thomas H. Huxley

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
-Stephen Jay Gould

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-Henry J. Tillman

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
-George Santayana

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power money is ever present -- and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must alwasy be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become a captive of a scientific-technological elite.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief ... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
-Walter Lippman

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
-Ashley Montague

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

"Faith" is a fine invention / For gentlemen who see -- / But microscopes are prudent / In an emergency.
-Emily Dickinson

There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
-Enrico Fermi

I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.
-Lawrence M. Krauss

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief ... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
-Walter Lippmann