Technology Quotes

Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.

~ Henri Poincaré

Science without religion is lame religion without science is blind.

~ Albert Einstein

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.

~ Norbert Wiener

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

~ Martin Luther King

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

~ Mike Russell

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

~ Ernest Renan

Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen - Science is what scientists do.

~ Dennis Flanagan

Technology - the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

~ Max Frisch

The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

~ Thomas Huxley

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

~ J. K. Galbraith

Whenever science makes a discovery the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.

~ Alan Valentine

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

~ Elvin Stackman

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for and is therefore right in postulating may be enveloped in a wider order on which she has no claim at all.

~ William James

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

~ Albert Einstein

Though many have tried no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science which can do so much cannot decide what it ought to do.

~ Joseph Wood Krutch

It may be bizarre but in my opinion science offers a sure path to God and religion.

~ Paul Davies

As both the Mercury and Apollo programs have shown our science and technology are so powerful that if an intense effort is made we can do almost anything we want in say ten years - provided we are not in conflict with the laws of nature.

~ Hannes Alfvin

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

~ Marshall Mcluhan

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

~ Marston Bates

Research is to see what everybody has seen and to think what nobody else has thought.

~ Albert Szent-Györgyi

No scientific theory achieves public acceptance until it has been thoroughly discredited.

~ Douglas Yates

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

~ Paul R. Ehrlich

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems except the things in the world that just don't add up.

~ James Magary

The World would be a safer place If someone had a plan Before exploring Outer Space To find the Inner Man.

~ E. Y. Harburg

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

~ Albert Einstein

There is more than a mere suspicion that the scientist who comes to ask metaphysical questions and turns away from metaphysical answers may be afraid of those answers.

~ Gregory Zilboorg

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

~ William Osier

The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again.

~ Al Goodman

Electric clocks reveal to you Precisely when your fuses blew.

~ Leonard Schiff

The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.

~ Alex Comfort

E = MC^2: Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.

~ Albert Einstein

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

~ Fred Hoyle

It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science and about the things that were known before science came.

~ Lord Dunsany

A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

~ Alfred North Whitehead

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.

~ Buckminster Fuller

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