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I shall mention Nissl
-Alois Alzheimer, Praising Franz Nissl and his strong influence on his work
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Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
-Archimedes
Pappus of Alexandria
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Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.
-Thomas Arnold
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Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.
-Isaac Asimov
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Though science can cause problems, it is not by ignorance that we will solve them.
-Isaac Asimov
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
-Isaac Asimov
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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
-W. H. Auden
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Science is but an image of the truth.
-Francis Bacon
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The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their public monuments or from their domestic relics. Archaeology is to social nature what comparative anatomy is to organized nature. A mosaic reveals an entire society, just as a skeleton of an ichthyosaur suggests an entire creation. Everything is deducible, everything is linked. The cause allows one to guess the effect, just as each effect allows one to reconstruct a cause. The scientist can resuscitate in this manner even the warts of ancient times. From this comes without doubt the prodigious interest that an architectural description can inspire when the writer's fantasy is faithful to its basic elements. Cannot each person reattach it to its past by rigorous deductions? And as for man, does not the past singularly resemble the future? Tell him what was and is this not almost always the same thing as telling him what will be?
-Honore de Balzac
The Search for the Absolute
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Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
-Amelia E. Barr
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Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
-Dave Barry
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The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-Karl Barth
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The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.
-Hilaire Belloc
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In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.
-P. L. Berger
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My dear, descended from the apes! Let us hope it is not true, but if it is, let us pray it will not become generally known.
In 1860 the famous duel between T.H. Huxley and Bishop Wilberforce took place, and the wife of the bishop of Worcester is reported to have said this in reaction to hearing Darwin
-Bishop of Worcester, wife
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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
-Neils Bohr
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Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.
-Georges Braque
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Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.
-Bertolt Brecht
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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
-Jacob Bronowski
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
-Jacob Bronowski
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It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.
-Jacob Bronowski
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
-Jacob Bronowski
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
-Jacob Bronowski
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The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists was science itself.
-Jacob Bronowski
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It is said that science will dehumanize people and turn them into numbers. That is false, tragically false. Look for yourself. This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz, this is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave. This is what men do when they aspire to the knowledge of gods.
Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known, we always feel forward for what is to be hoped. Every judgment in science stands on the edge or error, and is personal. Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible. In the end the words were said by Oliver Cromwell: I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
... We have to cure ourselves of the itch for absolute knowledge and power. We have to close the distance between the push-button order and the human act. We have to touch people.
-Jacob Bronowski
The Ascent of Man, (passage spoken at Auschwitz)
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Books about Science
