He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.
George William Curtis

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
George Santayana

I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
James H. Boren

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
E. B. White

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis Bacon

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
Robert Quillen

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Hugh Walpole

In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
Russell Baker

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
Konrad Lorenz

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
Wernher von Braun

Leave the atom alone.
E. Y. Harburg

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
Edmund Hillary

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Marcus Aurelius

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry B. Adams