Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why

-Bernard Baruch

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...

- Isaac Asimov

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind

-Albert Einstein

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

- Hippocrates

Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics. You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded. Because the elements, the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars. And the only way they could get into your body is if the stars were kind enough to explode. So forget Jesus. The stars died so you could be here today.

 

- Lawrence Krauss

I awoke only to find the rest of the world was still asleep

-Leonardo Da Vinci

In science it often happens that scientists say, ‘You know, that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,’ and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

-Carl Sagan

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

-Carl Sagan

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

-Arthur Koestler

The good thing about science is that it's true, whether you believe it or not

-Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Young Earth Creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life...but one particular band of Bronze Age goat herders got it exactly right

- Chuck Easttom

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed out perspective tends to be

- Douglas Adams

Scientists read many books and still feel they have a lot to learn.  A religious man barely reads one book and thinks he knows everything

-Anonymous

For me, The most ironic token of that moment in history is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon.  It reads 'We came in peace for all mankind.'  As the United States was dropping 7.5 megatons of conventional weapons on small nations in SouthEast Asia; we congratulated ourselves on our humanity;  we would harm no one on a lifeless rock

-Carl Sagan

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal 

- William James

We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? 

- Niels Bohr

Tell a man there are 300 Billion stars, he will believe you.  Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he’ll have to touch it.

-Anonymous

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.  But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth 

-Niels Bohr

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and Stupidity 

- Harlan Ellison