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'Alien' is a great movie. So is 'Close Encounters.' But I'm not the guy who goes out to the science-fiction festival. '2001's good. — David Duchovny

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics. — Lynn Swann

The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive. — Claude Bernard

Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science. — James Bridie

The next great task of science is to create a religion for humanity. — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn

His [Faraday's] third great discovery is the Magnetization of Light, which I should liken to the Weisshorn among mountains-high, beautiful, and alone. — John Tyndall

Someone has said that all the great jugglers are dead. — Ronald Graham

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art. — William Osler

The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines. — Freeman Dyson

It was as if life was one great big impersonal piece of machinery. — Alan Moore

Great triumphs of engineering genius - the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail - ... are rather invention than engineering proper. — Arthur Mellen Wellington

Persuasion is not a science but an art — William Bernbach

Nature answers every question. — Lailah Gifty Akita

With great power comes great dissipation. — Timothy Poston

The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect. — John Fowles

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz — William L.K.

Three great actions; explore, experiment and experience. — Lailah Gifty Akita

[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm ... — Charles Kingsley

Looking to the future I see in the further acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers. Science will cure unemployment. — Charles M. Schwab

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it. — Max Planck

Great scientists are Peter Pans, still anxious to classify and explain at an age when most people are concerned with money, power and sex. — David M. Knight

I just want to say one word to you-just one word ... "plastics!" ... There's a great future in plastics. — Buck Henry

My father has a great love of science, and he indoctrinated me into it early. I think I was 12 or so when we designed a moon base. — Andy Weir

It's a good day to do great things! — Randy Lipnitzky

It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it. — Robin Williams

Nature's great book is written in mathematics. — Galileo Galilei

How fortunate that science hasn't cracked human immortality. It's a great blessing that we can outlive old wars. And old warriors. — Lois McMaster Bujold

The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science. — Paul Davies

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy. — Lyman Beecher

Imagine! In each of us lies the potential to do superhuman things. Feats of great physical daring, art, science. The ability to defy laws of nature. — Peter Lerangis

There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool. — Edward Teller

A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths. — Claude Bernard

One of the great commandments of science is, Mistrust arguments from authority. — Carl Sagan

The great thing about growing up with science fiction is that you have an interest in everything. — Ray Bradbury

I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us. — Alan Alda

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself. — Isidor Isaac Rabi

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small. — Giacomo Leopardi

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance. — Muriel Spark

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free. — Thomas Jefferson

I went into science a great deal myself at one time; but I saw it would not do. It leads to everything; you can let nothing alone. — George Eliot

The great mass of humankind possesses an unmistakable unit-identity. It can be one thing. It can act as a single organism. — Frank Herbert

Whether we like it or not, one day science will take God from us! This will be especially a great destruction for the weak minds! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mine is a gruesome job, but for a scientist with a love for the mechanics of the human body, a great one. — Judy Melinek

What you really believe about the source of great performance thus becomes the foundation of all you will ever achieve — Geoff Colvin

I write science fiction for people who don't read a great deal of science fiction. — Bob Shaw

A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task. — Ernst Junger

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden. — John Podhoretz

Many hidden truths are often unobserved, not invisible. — Matthew A. Petti

Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting. — Thomas Huxley

Great science emerges out of great contradiction. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science. — Jacob Bronowski

Where there is great love there is great harmony of thought. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation. — Terry Pratchett

Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point. — Alfred The Great

Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts. — William James Mayo

But now seeing that great knowledge, while good, had not saved the world, he turned in penance to the Lord, crying. — Walter Miller

I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone. — Dallas Campbell

The Great God Science. It has failed us, because it was never meant to be a god, but only a few true scientists understand that. — Madeleine L'Engle

Describing Robert Bunsen:
As an investigator he was great, as a teacher he was greater, as a man and friend he was greatest. — Henry Enfield Roscoe

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths. — Rollo May

The pyramid that can be constructed on the diameters of earth and moon bears the precise proportions of the Great Pyramid — Bonnie Gaunt

[On cloning sheep:] Oh great, just what we need - more sheep. — Kate Clinton

There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene. — Harold E. Varmus

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. — John Dewey

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage ... — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Much of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy. — E. O. Wilson

Mysteries are the evidence to errors in our religious and historical precepts. — Matthew A. Petti

The Hubble Law is one of the great discoveries in science; it is one of the main supports of the scientific story of Genesis. — Robert Jastrow

There's no absolutely reliable way to achieve a great citation. However,
hardworking could be fruitful. — Eraldo Banovac

The great workman of nature is time. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity. — Richard Branson

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.
(Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays) — William Cecil Dampier

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention — Henry David Thoreau

Their guess turned out to be right, but one is reminded of E. T. Bell's remark that the great vice of the Greeks was not sodomy but extrapolation. — John D. Clark

There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible. — Charles H. Townes

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

I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns. — James Clerk Maxwell

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action. — Otto Weininger

Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity. — Heinz Pagels

There is only one good thing science ever discovered - a good thing, good tidings of great joy - that the world is round. — G.K. Chesterton

Most great advances have been a collaboration. That is the joy of science for me. — Tim Hunt

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition — Steven Weinberg

The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath. — Ernest Rutherford

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios. — Ray Kurzweil

We stand at the onset of a great age of adventure - and always shall, so long as we keep doing science. — Timothy Ferris

Scientists are human - they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process. — Cyril Ponnamperuma

For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward. — Charles Kingsley

[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity ... — Victor Hugo

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing. — Steven Weinberg

Great, Alexia thought, I have gone from soul sucker to electrical ground. The epithets just get sweeter and sweeter. — Gail Carriger

One of the great joys of science has to be turning a thought that surfaced one night over a few beers into a full-blown project. — Joe Roman

Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money. — Gary Larson

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. — Adam Smith

Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Taking him for all and all, I think it will be conceded that Michael Faraday was the greatest experimental philosopher the world has ever seen. — John Tyndall

Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots. — Steve Sheinkin

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. — Albert Einstein

It is one of the great blessings of youth, this guiltlessness, the source of gentle sleep and peaceful days. — John Pipkin

It's better to use science to apply science than to use common sense to apply a great idea. — Abdulkadir Abdullahi Mohamed Mirre

Up to me. Great. I could hurt my mom and my sisters, or I could hurt my dad. Perfect. Isn't divorce fun? — Katherine Applegate