In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected
discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it, explorations that are
exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to
wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to
survival. Carl Sagan
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have
been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now
and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst
the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton
The hardest thing to understand is why we can understand anything at all. Albert Einstein
And here are some quotes found on the web:
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very
narrow field. Niels Bohr
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
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
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
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
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. Robert A. Humphrey
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly
fact. Thomas Henry Huxley
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed
entirely of lost airline luggage. Mark Russell
. . . 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
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. Wernher Von Braun
