Science Quotes

Quotes slides used with music that was played as people were getting seated for the 21st Century Science Follow-up Session.

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Century Skills Science Follow-Up

2. “Science is simply common sense
at its best,
rigidly accurate in observation,
and merciless to fallacy in
logic.”

– Thomas Henry Huxley, (1825-95) English Biologist.

3. “There is something fascinating
about science.”
--Mark Twain

4. “In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is
better it should go first than last.”
~Hugh Walpole

5. “There is no adequate defense,
except stupidity, against the
impact of a new idea.”
-- Percy Williams Bridgman, U. S. Physicist, Nobel Prize, 1946

6. Good math teachers are like…
•Hallmark cards: cares enough

to give the
best.
•Coke: is the real thing.
•General Electric: has a lot to
give.
•Tide: gets the stain out that
others leave behind.
•VO-5 hair spray: holds
through all kinds of weather.

7.  “A good teacher is one-fourth
preparation
and three-fourths theater.”
-- Godwin, Gail (b. 1937) American writer

8. "Polar
coordinates
aren't just
arctic
fashions."

9. "Do not worry too much
about your difficulties in science,
I can assure you that mine are still greater."
-- Albert Einstein

10. Math Quotes
"The essence of science is not to
make simple things complicated, but to
make complicated things simple.”

11. "Any teacher that can be replaced by a
computer should be replaced by a
computer.”

12. "The notion of infinity is our
greatest friend;
it is also the greatest enemy of
our peace of mind."
-- James Pierpont

13. “Good teachers are usually a little
crazy.”
-- Rooney, Andy (b. 1919) American journalist

14. "We have to reinvent the wheel every once in a while,
not because we need a lot of wheels;
but because we need a lot of inventors."
-- Bruce Joyce

15. “Men love wonder, and that is the seed
of science.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

16. "Decimals have a point."

17. Math Quotes
"An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all
the minds of preceding ages."
-- de Fontenelle

18. “Black holes are where the creator divided by
zero.”
-- Steven Wright

19. “Science is common
sense at its best.”
--Thomas Huxley

20. Good science teachers are like…
•Ivory soap: is 100% pure.
•Cheerios: makes you feel
groovy.
•Frosted Flakes: makes you
feel gr-r-r-reat.
•Sears: has everything.
•Master Charge: is good for
emergencies.

21. "Imagination is more
important than
knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein

22. “Observation always involves theory.”
--Edwin Hubble

23. ”Great scientists are supreme artists."
-- Martin H. Fisher

24. “There is no adequate defense,
except stupidity,
against the impact of a new idea.”
-- Percy Williams Bridgman, U. S. Physicist, Nobel Prize, 1946

25. “The scientist is not a person who gives the
right answers, he's one who asks the right
questions.”

-- Claude Lévi-Strauss, Le Cru et le cuit, 1964

26. If it's green or wriggles, it's biology.
If it stinks, it's chemistry.
If it doesn't work, it's physics.
~Handy Guide to Science

27. "Well done is
better than well
said."
-- Ben Franklin

28. "Teaching is the royal road to learning."
-- Jassamyn West

29. "We only think
when
confronted
with a
problem.”

-- John Dewey

30. "I was x years old in the year x^2.”
-- Augustus De Morgan
(when asked about his age)

31. "I do not
teach,
I relate.”
-- Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne

32. “Nature composes some of her loveliest
poems for the microscope & the
telescope.”
-- Theodore Roszak, 1972

33. "The more you know,
the less sure you are.”
-- Voltaire

34. "The most important questions in life are,
for the most part,
really only problems of probability."

-- Pierre Simon de La Place

35. \
"I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand."
-- Chinese Proverb

36. ”Science is not a spectator sport!"