Science(110)

"In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms."
Stephen Jay Gould

"The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market."
Daniel S. Greenberg

"From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go."
Tom Hanks

"Leave the atom alone."
E. Y. Harburg

"You cannot feed the hungry on statistics."
Heinrich Heine

"Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it."
Edmund Hillary

"We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like."
Alfred Hitchcock

"I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world."
Jane Howard