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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

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

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

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

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny....'

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them.