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Quotations: Science and Technology
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!'(I
found it!) but 'hmmm ... That’s funny....' - Isaac Asimov
- A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. - H.H. Munro
- Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. — E. W. Dijkstra
- The computer allows you to make mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila. — Mitch Ratcliffe.
- If you want truly to understand something, try to change it. - Kurt Lewin
- The success of a discovery depends upon the time of its appearance. - S. Weir Mitchell
- The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. - T.H. Huxley
- Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. - Janice Elice Hopkins
- We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan
- In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn't budge a log, they didn't try to grow a larger ox. - Grace Murray Hopper
- The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. - Douglas Adams
- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - Douglas Adams
- The most efficient labor-saving device is still money. - Franklin P. Jones
- ...it therefore represented technology's greatest triumph to date over both itself and plain common sense. - Douglas Adams
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Clarks Third Law
- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein
- Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. - Russell Baker
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