“I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.”
Funny Science Quotes
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Funny Science Quotes
“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.”
“The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.”
“The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
“Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.”
Source: The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry
“Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!”
“Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.”
“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
Source: Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics
Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.”
“The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.”
“To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.”
“The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose”
Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything
“If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.”
“Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.”
“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
Source: Icarus; or, the Future of Science
“In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.”
“Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.”
Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production
“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.”
Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives
“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”
Source: Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims