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While bright-eyed science watches round.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

For science is . . . like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?

The pursuit of the good and evil are now linked in astronomy as in almost all science. . . . The fate of human civilization will depend on whether the rockets of the future carry the astronomer's telescope or a hydrogen bomb.

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

The science of fools with long memories.

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.

One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

To the natural philosopher, to whom the whole extent of nature belongs, all the individual branches of science constitute the links of an endless chain, from which not one can be detached without destroying the harmony of the whole.

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

Science is organised knowledge.

Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.

But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense, Old riddles still bid us defiance, Old questions of Why and of Whence.

There is only one nature--the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.

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

Art is I; Science is we.

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

A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.