“Truth is beautiful and divine, no matter how humble its origin; it is the same in the musty boiler-room as it is in the glorious stars of heaven.” MatterBeautifulScienceHeavenStarsRoomsDivineTruth IsHumbleGloriousBoilerBoiler Room Author:Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin
“We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.” IfsKnowsYearsWellsEnoughScienceNextRoomsKnowledgePathGreaterTelevisionDevelopmentConversationAchievementWindowFollowingFiftyOwnersSurprisingTelephonesRapidsWireless Author:Winston Churchill
“The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore, a nation whose spirit is characterised by energy may well be eminent in science; and we have Newton. Shakspeare [sic] and Newton: in the intellectual sphere there can be no higher names. And what that energy, which is the life of genius, above everything demands and insists upon, is freedom; entire independence of all authority, prescription and routine, the fullest room to expand as it will.” MenWellsMayScienceSpiritNamesEnergyNationsRoomsGeniusHigherDemandAuthorityHighestIntellectualIndependenceFacultyRoutineSpheresNewtonPrescriptions Author:Matthew Arnold
“If there were biologists among the extremophiles organisms that live in extreme conditions, they would surely classify themselves as normal and any life that thrived in room temperature as an extremophile.” IfsScienceRoomsConditionsNormalExtremesOrganismsTemperatureBiologist Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“America is running a fever, but there are no emergency rooms.” RealityRunningAmericaSciencePoliticsEnergyNatureRoomsIdeologyEmergenciesFeverEmergency Room Author:Ed Markey
“When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.” FeelsScienceRoomsMistakeCompanyScientistDrawingDukesShabby Author:W. H. Auden
“Science is a good thing. News reporters are good things too. But it's never a good idea to put them in the same room.” IdeasScienceRoomsNewsGood ThingsGood IdeasReporters Author:Scott Adams