Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike AdamsA behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- AnonymousThe most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac AsimovInanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell BakerAn expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels BohrThe world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar BradleyArt and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-LyttonIn 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 DiracThat's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing. -- 'Doc' EdgertonA 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 EinsteinA theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributedEverything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert EinsteinIf the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert EinsteinIf we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -- Albert EinsteinNever 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 EinsteinThe 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 EinsteinThe most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert EinsteinWhen 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 EinsteinWe 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. -- Richard FeynmanWhen 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 FullerHardly 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, 1971An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. HumphreyIt is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous HuxleyThe great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry HuxleyWhen you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson MiznerAll 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. PeterResearch is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- PlutarchThe scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark RussellThe only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest RutherfordCelestial 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 MeScience is a collection of successful recipes. -- Paul ValeryBasic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von BraunAnyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. -- John Von NeumanIf you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright