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| Henry G. Stott |
1. "Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race."
~Henry G. Stott
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| Grace Murray Hopper |
2. “If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.”
~Grace Murray Hopper
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| Sir Horace Lamb |
3. "I am an old man now, and when I die and go to Heaven there are two matters on which I hope for enlightement. One is quantum electrodynamics and the other is the turbulent motion of fluids. And about the former I am rather more optimistic." ~Sir Horace Lamb
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| Michael Faraday |
4. "The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication."
~Michael Faraday
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| Charles Darwin |
5. "In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed."
~Charles Darwin
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| Isaac Asimov |
6. "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
~Isaac Asimov
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| Bertrand Russell |
7. "Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century."
~Bertrand Russell
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| Douglas Adams |
8. "The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
~Douglas Adams
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| Niels Bohr |
9. "An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."
~Niels Bohr
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| Neil deGrasse Tyson |
10. "The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."
~Neil deGrasse Tyson
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| Stephen Hawking |
11. "One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away."
~Stephen Hawking
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| Thomas A. Edison |
12. "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
~Thomas A. Edison
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| Albert Einstein |
13. "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."
~Albert Einstein
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| George Washington |
14. "There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness."
~George Washington
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
15. "Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| Marie Curie |
16. "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
~Marie Curie
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| Louis Pasteur |
17. "Chance only favours the prepared mind."
~Louis Pasteur
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| John von Neumann |
18. "In mathematics you don't understand things, you just get used to them."
~John von Neumann
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| Anne McCaffrey |
19. "A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable."
~Anne McCaffrey
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| Leonardo Da Vinci |
20. "Therefore O students study mathematics and do not build without foundations."
~Leonardo Da Vinci
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| Nikola Tesla |
21. "The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter—for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way."
~Nikola Tesla
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| Maria Mitchell |
22. "Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow."
~Maria Mitchell
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| Henri Poincare |
23. "Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house."
~Henri Poincaré
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| Roger Bacon |
24. "For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics."
~Roger Bacon
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| Freeman Dyson |
25. "A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible."
~Freeman Dyson
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| Isidor Isaac Rabi |
26. "My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, 'So? Did you learn anything today?' But not my mother. 'Izzy,' she would say, 'did you ask a good question today?' That difference - asking good questions - made me become a scientist."
~Isidor Isaac Rabi
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| Robert G. Ingersoll |
27. "The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy."
~Robert G. Ingersoll
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| Hypatia |
28. "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all."
~Hypatia
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| Lise Meitner |
29. "Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist."
~Lise Meitner
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| Werner Heisenberg |
30. "Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think."
~Werner Heisenberg
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| Sir Alexander Fleming |
31. "For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new..."
~Sir Alexander Fleming
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| Vera Rubin |
32. "Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions."
~Vera Rubin
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| Edwin Powell Hubble |
33. "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science."
~Edwin Powell Hubble
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| Wernher von Braun |
34. "Our two greatest problems are gravity and paper work. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming."
~Wernher von Braun
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| Gustave Eiffel |
35. "Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as solid and long lasting structures? Aren't the genuine functions of strength always in keeping with unwritten conditions of harmony? ... Besides, there is an attraction, a special charm in the colossal to which ordinary theories of art do not apply."
~Gustave Eiffel
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| Carl Sagan |
36. "Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home."
~Carl Sagan
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| James Clerk Maxwell |
37. "In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin to trace the development of ideas that it becomes fascinating."
~James Clerk Maxwell
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| Plato |
38. "Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."
~Plato
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| Rene Descartes |
39. "As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which order and measurements are investigated, and that it makes no difference whether it be in numbers, figures, stars, sounds or any other object that the question of measurement arises. I saw consequently that there must be some general science to explain that element as a whole which gives rise to problems about order and measurement, restricted as these are to no special subject matter. This, I perceived was called 'universal mathematics'."
~René Descartes
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| Cornelius Bernardus Van Niel |
40. "In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in."
~Cornelius Bernardus Van Niel
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| Sir Isaac Newton |
41. "Amicus Plato amicus Aristoteles magis amica verita. Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth."
~Sir Isaac Newton
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| Gertrude B. Elion |
42. "Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my day I was told women didn't go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn't."
~Gertrude B. Elion
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| Carl Friedrich Gauss |
43. "I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them."
~Carl Friedrich Gauss
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| Charles Babbage |
44. "The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind."
~Charles Babbage
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| Erwin Schrodinger |
45. "The task is ... not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees."
~Erwin Schrödinger
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| John Maynard Keynes |
46. "The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds."
~John Maynard Keynes
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| Andrew Wiles |
47. "I carried this problem around in my head basically the whole time. I would wake up with it first thing in the morning, I would be thinking about it all day, and I would be thinking about it when I went to sleep. Without distraction I would have the same thing going round and round in my mind." (Recalling the degree of focus and determination that eventually yielded the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.)
~Andrew Wiles
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| Johannes Kepler |
48. "At ubi materia, ibi Geometria. Where there is matter, there is geometry."
~Johannes Kepler
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| Galileo Galilei |
49. "Count what is countable, measure what is measurable, and what is not measurable, make measurable."
~Galileo Galilei
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| James Joseph Sylvester |
50. "Mathematics is the music of reason."
~James Joseph Sylvester
