Scientists & inventors

all 20 quotes in this pack

• “If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants.”
• “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
• “There is grandeur in this view of life.”
• “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
• “The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”
• “Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.”
• “In the fields of observation chance favours only the prepared mind.”
• “We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
• “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.”
• “It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm.”
• “Mr. Watson, come here; I want to see you.”
• “What hath God wrought.”
• “Life is short, and Art long.”
• “The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
• “The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.”
• “The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing.”
• “There is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.”
• “The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.”
• “We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.”
• “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”