Friday, May 27, 2011

Country qoutes



Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. ~Edwin Powell Hubble, The Nature of Science, 1954






I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe. ~Ken Jenkins






No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer. ~Thomas Browne






If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. ~Henry J. Tillman






A biophysicist talks physics to the biologists and biology to the physicists, but then he meets another biophysicist, they just discuss women. ~Author Unknown






Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. ~Theodore Roszak,Where the Wasteland Ends, 1972






There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. ~Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 1883






Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. ~Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776






Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. ~Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life, 1913






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

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