Favorite Science Quotes

Albert Einstein:
“Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.”

Albert Einstein:
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

Arthur C. Clarke:
“The First Clarke Law states, ‘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.’”

Galileo Galilei:
“I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reasons, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

Henrik Ibsen:
“It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.”

Homer Simpson:
“In this house, we OBEY the laws of thermodynamics!”

Isaac Asimov:
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but rather, “hmm…. that’s funny….”"

Isaac Asimov:
“[W]hen people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.”

Do you have any favorite Science Quotes?

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I’m introducing a new feature to make this blog more interactive.

Its called Ask a Scientist! Here you can ask me any question that you want (via email) and I will post your question and my answer.

Click on the Ask a Scientist link in the sidebar

DISCLAIMER: I’m not a scientist, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express.

I have enabled gravatars on my blog. The default one that I added is way cool!

But if you decide you want your own, go sign up. Its actually a pretty neat concept, and it works on any blog that you go to (provided the blog has enabled gravatars, of course).

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According to various sources, the beach flasher has returned to Rye, NH. I only mention this to point out that I was visiting my sick old granny in the hospital during this incident.

Actually, I have a friend who is a flasher. He was going to quit, but he decided to stick it out for another year.

We can bitch about all the rain we’ve gotten this year, but today we got a happy reminder that even rain can bring good things.