DAY

QUOTE-FOR-THE-DAY

1

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

--Arthur Koestler

2

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.

--Mark Twain

3

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

--Brian Aldiss

4

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance -- the idea that anything is possible.

--Ray Bradbury

5

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

--Jacob Bronowski

6

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.

--Frank Lloyd Wright

7

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

--Claude Levi-Strauss

8

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.

--Arthur C. Clarke

9

An artist deals with aspects of reality different from those which a scientist sees.

--Richard Wright

10

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

--David Cronenberg

11

Facts are the air of the scientists. Without them you never can fly.

--Ivan Pavlov

11

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

--Jacques Cousteau

12

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientist.

--E. B. White

14

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

--Peter Medawar

15

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

--Albert Einstein

16

I haven't the slightest idea where fashions in pathology are born. . . . Possibly some of my older readers dimly recollect the days when modish scientists declared that the only dependable method of relieving a toothache was a clean, conclusive appendect

--Ogden Nash

17

I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along. . . .

--Erma Bombeck

18

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

19

If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.

--Evelyn Waugh

20

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

--Penelope Fitzgerald

21

If those scientists are so smart, why do they all count backward?

--Robert Orben

22

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast.

--Konrad Lorenz

23

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

--Konrad Lorenz

24

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

--Loren Eiseley

25

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

--Henrik Ibsen

26

Life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

-- Unknown

27

Look at these cows and remember that the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.

--Michael Pupin

28

Man can't help hoping even if he is a scientist. He can only hope more accurately.

--Karl A. Menninger

29

Medical scientists are nice people, but you should not let them treat you.

--August Bier

30

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

--Jean Rostand

31

Scientists tell us the universe is made up of protons, electrons, and neutrons. They forgot to mention morons.

-- Unknown