Medieval Technology? The Middle Ages invented among other things the crank the horse collar eyeglasses the flying buttress the stirrup the windmill the wheelbarrow printing firearms paper the canal lock the compass the rudder the mechanical clock the spinning wheel and the treadle.
~ Joseph And Frances Gies
The best defence against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off.
~ The British Army Journal
A few observations and much reasoning lead to error many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
~ Alexis Carrel
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
~ Sir Humphrey Davy
Basic research is when I'm doing what I don't know what I'm doing.
~ Wernher Von Braun
Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads or you shall learn nothing.
~ Thomas Huxley
If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
~ Isaac Newton
It is the theory which decided what can be observed.
~ Albert Einstein
I smile to catch the piranhas from swimming out of my mouth.
~ Evan Mariah Pettit
Every creature is a living instruction that runs the algorithm of nature.
~ Joey Lawsin
You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.
~ Lise Meitner
If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don't have the correct data. If you meet people in this unnamed movement and aren't optimistic, you haven't got a heart.
~ Paul Hawken
We need to consume less. A lot less. Less food, less energy, less stuff. Fewer cars, electric cars, cotton T-shirts, laptops, mobile phone upgrades. Far fewer.Yet, every decade, global consumption continues to increase relentlessly.
~ Stephen Emmott
If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind.
~ Émilie Du Châtelet
I’ve always had a thing for men with large hadron colliders.
~ Cole Mccade
For seven centuries the existence of Grand Unification Theories and hyperstring post-quantum physics and Core-given understanding of the universe as self-contained and boundless, without Big Bang singularities or corresponding endpoints, had pretty much eliminated any role of God—primitively anthropomorphic or sophisticatedly post-Einsteinian—even as a caretaker or pre-Creation former of rules. The modern universe, as machine and man had come to understand it, needed no Creator; in fact, allowed no Creator. Its rules allowed very little tinkering and no major revisions. It had not begun and would not end, beyond cycles of expansion and contraction as regular and self-regulated as the seasons on Old Earth
~ Dan Simmons
To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.
~ David Bentley Hart
And this was to save rats, right? Or mice? You spent all this money to save mice the problem of developing tumors?
~ Siddhartha Mukherjee
Almost all the world is natural chemicals, so it really makes you re-think everything. A cup of coffee is filled with chemicals. They've identified a thousand chemicals in a cup of coffee. But we only found 22 that have been tested in animal cancer tests out of this thousand. And of those, 17 are carcinogens. There are ten milligrams of known carcinogens in a cup of coffee and thats more carcinogens than you're likely to get from pesticide residues for a year!
~ Bruce Ames
In God we trust. All others [must] have data. - Bernard Fisher
50,000-63,000 individuals in the United States and 19,000-25,000 in the UK die prematurely from cancer annually due to insufficient vitamin D.
~ John Cannell
My love for Neo-Tokyo is a bulbous massof post-human organic circuitry.Cyperpunk is my mother tongue.My love is a man-machine interface gun.
~ Yann Rousselot
Learn computer science. It's extraordinarily helpful. I like recommending learning economics as well so they think in terms of business, they have rational frameworks for looking at the world, but yeah, computer science is an amazing way to get into, even if you want to be CEO, having a tech background is helpful.
~ Fabrice Grinda
I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe.
~ Jane Goodall
In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.
~ Ben Bernanke
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
~ Evan Esar
We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.
~ Jaron Lanier
The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
~ William James
Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
~ Ulrich Beck
Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
~ Hans Eysenck
Given the scale of issues like global warming and epidemic disease, we shouldn't underestimate the importance of a can-do attitude to science rather than a can't-afford-it attitude.
~ Martin Rees
Extra dimensional theories are sometimes considered science fiction with equations. I think that's a wrong attitude. I think extra dimensions are with us, they are with us to stay, and they entered physics a long time ago. They are not going to go away.
~ Leonard Susskind
The laissez-faire attitude to science education has resulted in a disaster exemplified by the fact that more young people are opting for media studies than physics.
~ Harry Kroto
I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world's energy problems, energy distribution problems. I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.
~ Bill Nye
Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.
~ Charles H. Townes
My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.
~ Kirsten Gillibrand
Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
~ Nancy Reagan
I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.
~ Joshua Lederberg
Perspective is not a science but a hope.
~ John Berger
Because they are so humbled by their creations, engineers are naturally conservative in their expectations of technology. They know that the perfect system is the stuff of science fiction, not of engineering fact, and so everything must be treated with respect.
~ Henry Petroski
