An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
- Benjamin Franklin
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
- Omar Khayyam
Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.
- Marie Curie
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
We create our future, by well improving present opportunities: however few and small they are.
- Lewis Howard Latimer
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
- Pythagoras
No, it is a very interesting number, it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways.
One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.
- Zoroaster
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men who are creative, inventive, and discovers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered.
- Jean Piaget
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
- Alan Turing
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.
- Alexander Fleming
To preserve my brains I want food and this is now my first consideration. Any sympathetic letter from you will be helpful to me here to get a scholarship.
The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
- Wernher von Braun
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
- Frank Zappa
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
- Herbert Spencer
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
- Richard P. Feynman
My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?
Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.
- Archimedes
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
- Aristotle
...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise
- David Fairchild
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
- Alexander Hamilton
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
- Michael Faraday
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
- Democritus
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
- Zora Neale Hurston
There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.
- Anaximander
The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
- John von Neumann
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
- Louis Pasteur
Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
- Werner Heisenberg
If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
- Charles Lindbergh
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
- William Osler
A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.
- Niels Bohr
All sciences originated among the sons of Israel, the reason being the existence of prophecy among them which made their perfection in the sciences amazing.
- Averroes
It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal man, aided by science and directed by superior skill.
- Henry Tudor
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
Physics is to mathematics what sex is to masturbation.
Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Where there is matter, there is geometry.
- Johannes Kepler
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
- Immanuel Kant
Tomorrow may be fair, however stormy the sky of today.
Let Nature be your teacher
- William Wordsworth
Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe. I felt like I had a right to be anywhere in this universe, that I belonged here as much as any speck of stardust, any comet, any planet.
- Mae Jemison
All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.
- Ernest Rutherford
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Habit is a powerful means of advancement, and the habit of eternal vigilance and diligence, rarely fails to bring a substantial reward.
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
- Vera Rubin
