Science Quotes – Insightful Reflections on Research and Knowledge

"Television, the most powerful means of human interaction, is today in the hands of those utterly irresponsible regarding their role in society."

Sergei Petrowitsch Kapiza

"All parties in industrialized countries, whether right or left, will adopt the CO2 global warming theory. This is a unique opportunity to tax the air we breathe. Because they supposedly save the world from a heat death, politicians even receive applause for it. No party will resist this temptation."

Nigel Calder

"Climate disclosures must become comprehensive, climate risk management must be transformed, and sustainable investments must become mainstream. Companies that anticipate these developments will be generously rewarded. Those that don't will cease to exist."

Mark Carney

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

George Orwell

"Auch wenn es sicher richtig ist, daß eine radikale eugenische Politik für viele Jahre politisch und psychologisch unmöglich sein wird, wird es für die UNESCO wichtig sein, dafür zu sorgen, daß das eugenische Problem mit der größten Sorgfalt geprüft und die Öffentlichkeit über das fragliche Thema informiert wird, damit vieles, was heute undenkbar erscheint, wenigstens wieder denkbar wird."

Julian Huxley

"The implications of transferring full sovereignty from individual nations to a world organization. Political unity in some form of world government will be necessary. Even if... any radical eugenic policy will be politically and psychologically impossible for many years, one must proceed with utmost care and inform the public about the issues at stake, so that much of what is now unthinkable may at least become thinkable."

Julian Huxley

"A well-packaged statistic is better than Hitler's "big lie" which misleads you, but it cannot be pinned on you."

Darrell Huff

"A physical law must possess mathematical beauty,"

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

"Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science."

Steven Spielberg

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

Henry Louis Mencken

"There is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it."

Henry Louis Mencken

"There are questions to which people want answers but cannot find them. It is a misconception to think that these questions will disappear as science advances."

Hans-Georg Gadamer

"Sometimes it’s the people no one can imagine doing things no one can imagine doing."

Alan Mathison Turing

"Good ideas are always crazy until they're not."

Lawrence Edward Page

"What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean."

Isaac Newton

"Columbus had no business plan when he discovered America."

Andrew Stephen „Andy“ Grove

“The reality is that none of these companies […] are actually earning any real money. The little revenue they generate mostly comes from consulting missions […] as opposed to genuinely harnessing any advantages that quantum computers have over classical computers. […] nobody has yet come close to building a quantum machine that is actually capable of solving practical problems. The current devices are so error-prone that any information […] will almost instantly degenerate into noise. […] A convincing strategy for overcoming these errors has not yet been demonstrated. […] it is unclear as to when — if ever — it will become possible to build a large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer. […] It is unclear what commercially-useful problems can even be solved […] if any. […] the quantum computing industry has yet to demonstrate any practical utility, despite the fanfare […] it became progressively more tempting for scientists to oversell their results […] a highly exaggerated perspective […] reached the mainstream […] greed and misunderstanding taking hold […] at some point the claims will be found out and the funding will dry up.”

Nikita Gourianov

"Success comes when you do what you love."

Albert Einstein