Funny Science Quotes - Page 2

• Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Science, Law, Mad

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• Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Hilarious, Women

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.35, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Design, Needs, Results

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• The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

  Irene Joliot-Curie

  Science, Theory, Nobel

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• Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Science, Technology, Telescopes

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• A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

  Edward Teller

  Believe, Science, Simple

  Edward Teller, Wendy Teller, Wilson Talley (2013). “Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics”, p.69, Basic Books

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• The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose

  Bill Bryson

  Funny, Knowledge, Science

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Morning, Good Day, Science

  On Aggression ch. 2 (1966)

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• Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.

  Wernher von Braun

  Baby, Science, Nine

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• Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences, but especially so in physics, in which the results of quantum mechanics and relativity theory have opened up two very different paths for physicists to pursue. They may lead us - to put it in extreme terms - to the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each of us to decide which path to take.

  Fritjof Capra

  Responsibility, Science, Issues

  "The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1983.

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• The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

  Lewis Thomas

  Flower, Sunshine, Science

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Girl, Funny Inspirational

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• Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

  Alexander Pope

  Nature, Science, Night

  "Epitaph: Intended for Sir Isaac Newton" l. 1 (1730) See Squire 1

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• I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Men, Groups

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Icarus; or, the Future of Science”, p.3, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.

  Karl Marx

  Science, Technology

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.406, Cosimo, Inc.

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