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Science Quotes
21st Century Skills Science Follow-Up
“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.
“There is something fascinating about science.”
--Mark Twain
“In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.”
~Hugh Walpole
“There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the
impact of a new idea.”
-- Percy Williams Bridgman, U. S. Physicist, Nobel Prize, 1946
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.
“A good teacher is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.”
-- Godwin, Gail (b. 1937) American writer
"Polar coordinates
aren't justarctic
fashions."
"Do not worry too much about your difficulties in science,
I can assure you that mine are still greater."
-- Albert Einstein
Math Quotes
"The essence of science is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.”
"Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a
computer.”
"The notion of infinity is our greatest friend;
it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind."
-- James Pierpont
“Good teachers are usually a little crazy.” -- Rooney, Andy (b. 1919) American journalist
"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
“Men love wonder, and that is the seed of science.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Decimals have a point."
Math Quotes
"An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages."
-- de Fontenelle
“Black holes are where the creator divided by zero.”
-- Steven Wright
“Science is common sense at its best.”
--Thomas Huxley
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.
"Imagination is more important than
knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein
“Observation always involves theory.”
--Edwin Hubble
”Great scientists are supreme artists."
-- Martin H. Fisher
“There is no adequate defense, except stupidity,
against the impact of a new idea.”
-- Percy Williams Bridgman, U. S. Physicist, Nobel Prize, 1946
“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
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
"Well done is better than well
said."
-- Ben Franklin
"Teaching is the royal road to learning." -- Jassamyn West
"We only think when
confronted with a
problem.”
-- John Dewey
"I was x years old in the year x^2.” -- Augustus De Morgan
(when asked about his age)
"I do not teach,
I relate.” -- Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
“Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope & the
telescope.”
-- Theodore Roszak, 1972
"The more you know,
the less sure you are.”
-- Voltaire
"The most important questions in life are,for the most part,
really only problems of probability."
-- Pierre Simon de La Place
\"I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand."
-- Chinese Proverb
”Science is not a spectator sport!"