Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.

—— Mike Adams

A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.

—— Anonymous

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

—— Isaac Asimov

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories—— those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost.< /p>

—— Russell Baker

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

—— Niels Bohr< /p>

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

—— General Omar Bradley

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

—— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before . But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

—— Paul Dirac

That's the nature of research——you don't know what in hell you're doing.

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—— 'Doc' Edgerton

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.

—— Albert Einstein

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

—— Albert Einstein, attributed

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

—— Albert Einstein

< p> If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

—— Albert Einstein

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?

—— Albert Einstein

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

—— Albert Einstein

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

—— Albert Einstein

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

—— Albert Einstein

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

—— Albert Einstein

We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea at first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work.

< p> ——Richard Feynman

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

—— Buckminster Fuller

Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry . Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomization, statistical significance, and standard deviations is less than illiterate; he is preconscious.

—— A. James Gregor, An Introduction to Metapolitics, 1971

An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.

—— Robert A. Humphrey

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions .

—— Aldous Huxley

The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.

—— Thomas Henry Huxley

When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.

—— Wilson Mizner

All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.

—— Lawrence J. Peter

Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

—— Plutarch

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

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—— Mark Russell

The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't."

—— Ernest Rutherford

Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool .

—— Kelvin Throop III

. . the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

—— Peter Ustinov, Dear Me

Science is a collection of successful recipes.

—— Paul Valery

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

—— Wernher Von Braun

Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

—— John Von Neuman

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

—— Steven Wright