post em here: "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong." The first quote has to go to Einstein "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."Isaac Asimov
“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' Isaac Asimov
"We are a way for the universe to know itself. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return. And we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff." ― Carl Sagan
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Arthur C. Clarke
“The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.” ― Nikola Tesla
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize. Richard P. Feynman
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. Richard P. Feynman
a couple of funny ones For NASA, space is still a high priority Dan Quayle Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it Richard Feynman
Probably my favorite science quote of all time It's poetry in motion She turned her tender eyes to me As deep as any ocean As sweet as any harmony Mmm - but she blinded me with science "She blinded me with science!" And failed me in biology When I'm dancing close to her "Blinding me with science - science!" I can smell the chemicals "Blinding me with science - science!" Mmm - but it's poetry in motion And when she turned her eyes to me As deep as any ocean As sweet as any harmony Mmm - but she blinded me with science And failed me in geometry When she's dancing next to me "Blinding me with science - science!" "Science!" I can hear machinery "Blinding me with science - science!" "Science!" It's poetry in motion And now she's making love to me The spheres're in commotion The elements in harmony She blinded me with science "She blinded me with science!" And hit me with technology "Good heavens Miss Sakamoto - you're beautiful!" I - I don't believe it! There she goes again! She's tidied up, and I can't find anything! All my tubes and wires And careful notes And antiquated notions But! - it's poetry in motion And when she turned her eyes to me As deep as any ocean As sweet as any harmony Mmm - but she blinded me with science "She blinded me with - with science!" She blinded me with -
Hey Speeds, I know very little about Tesla, have you read or learned much about him other than the routine? If you have any reading suggestions let me know, he seems like he would be a hell of a character to learn about.
Tesla is perhaps the single most important and prolific inventor in human history and yet the biographies written about him are not so great. Instead, you might want to watch this: [video=youtube;Cg7NeWnN1e4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg7NeWnN1e4[/video]
It's good, but for some reason I like science quotes to be accurate, and the part about the left and right hand doesn't add up. They are likely almost identical percentages of atoms from differing stars. As a concept it's elegant, as a science quote it's a bit off.
"Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. What if someone says, 'Well, that's not how I choose to think about water."? All we can do is appeal to scientific values. And if he doesn't share those values, the conversation is over. If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn't value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance or logic?" - Sam Harris
“We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world. We give little thought to the machinery that generates the sunlight that makes life possible, to the gravity that glues us to an Earth that would otherwise send us spinning off into space, or to the atoms of which we are made and on whose stability we fundamentally depend. Few of us spend much time wondering why nature is the way it is; where the cosmos came from, or whether it was always here; if time will one day flow backward and effects precede causes; or whether there are ultimate limits to what humans can know. What is the smallest piece of matter. Why do we remember the past and not the future. And why there is a universe." - Carl Sagan "We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever." - Carl Sagan “If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth's history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of the first simple, single-celled organisms, but then advances no further for the next sixteen hours. Not until almost 8:30 in the evening, with the day five-sixths over, has Earth anything to show the universe but a restless skin of microbes. Then, finally, the first sea plants appear, followed twenty minutes later by the first jellyfish and the enigmatic Ediacaran fauna first seen by Reginald Sprigg in Australia. At 9:04 P.M. trilobites swim onto the scene, followed more or less immediately by the shapely creatures of the Burgess Shale. Just before 10 P.M. plants begin to pop up on the land. Soon after, with less than two hours left in the day, the first land creatures follow. Thanks to ten minutes or so of balmy weather, by 10:24 the Earth is covered in the great carboniferous forests whose residues give us all our coal, and the first winged insects are evident. Dinosaurs plod onto the scene just before 11 P.M. and hold sway for about three-quarters of an hour. At twenty-one minutes to midnight they vanish and the age of mammals begins. Humans emerge one minute and seventeen seconds before midnight. The whole of our recorded history, on this scale, would be no more than a few seconds, a single human lifetime barely an instant. Throughout this greatly speeded-up day continents slide about and bang together at a clip that seems positively reckless. Mountains rise and melt away, ocean basins come and go, ice sheets advance and withdraw. And throughout the whole, about three times every minute, somewhere on the planet there is a flash-bulb pop of light marking the impact of a Manson-sized meteor or one even larger. It's a wonder that anything at all can survive in such a pummeled and unsettled environment. In fact, not many things do for long.” - Bill Bryson
"Science does not know its debt to imagination." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay "Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration." - Thomas Edison "I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work." - Thomas Edison
