Quotes and Such

Don't fight forces, use them.

-R. Buckminster Fuller

It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so.

-Felix Okoye

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

-Thomas Henry Huxley

It is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

-Charles Darwin

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

-Marie Curie

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

-Sir Francis Bacon

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

-Carl Sagan

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.

-Nikola Tesla

I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.

-Robert Anton Wilson

Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.

-Douglas Adams

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.

-Douglas Adams

The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that such complexity can arise not only out of such simplicity, but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of how that might have happened, it's just wonderful. And . . . the opportunity to spend 70 or 80 years of your life in such a universe is time well spent as far as I am concerned.

-Douglas Adams

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

-Douglas Adams

We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.

-Richard Dawkins

Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators.

-Attributed to Richard Dawkins

Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one's anus to one's mouth.

-Jaron Lanier