Science Quotes

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm - not all - that religion used to fill.

X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.

Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.

I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe.

I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.

The universe really is motion & nothing else.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.