I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown
Allen, Woody

Tranquillity base here - the Eagle has landed
Armstrong, Neil Alden

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but  'That's funny...'
Asimov, Isaac

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Bacon, Sir Francis

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

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
Baruch, Bernard Mannes

Art is I; science is we.
Bernard, Dr Claude

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
Bernard, Dr Claude

The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
Bernard, Dr Claude

May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery
Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.
Bohr, Niels

What, sir, you would make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them
Bragg, Sir William Henry

Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.
Braun, Wernher von

Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.
Braun, Wernher von

By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.
Bronowski, Jacob

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

Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself
Capra, Frank

It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics
Caruso, Denise

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Clarke, Arthur Charles

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Clarke, Arthur Charles

Technology is an extension of our hands and our feet, not our spirit.
Costa-Gavras

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.
Cousins, Norman

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
Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice

Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Duell, Charles Halliwell