A 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

The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline baggage.

Max Born

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Sir William Bragg

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

Charles Darwin

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Albert Einstein

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Carl Sagan

Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them.

Georges Braque

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

Adam Smith

Charles Sanders Pierce

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Francis Darwin

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

John Dewey

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Isaac Asimov