Quotes about science
558 quotes from 241 people
Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.
Steve Ballmerborn 1956“Ballmer Boosts Harvard Computer Science Faculty” (13 November 2014)
Honoré de Balzac1799–1850Lost Illusions, Part II: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (1839), tr. Ellen Marriage, ch. II’m not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
Bernard Baruch1870–1965New York Post (24 June 1965)There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common.
Samuel Beckett1906–1989Molloy (1951)Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher1813–1887Life Thoughts (1858), p. 234
Ludwig van Beethoven1770–1827Letter to Emilie, July 17, 1812.
Cyrano de Bergerac1619–1655The Other World (1657)I think the Moon is a world like this one, and the Earth is its moon.
Cyrano de Bergerac1619–1655The Other World (1657)
Wendell Berry1934–2026The Long-Legged House (1969), “A Native Hill”- Wendell Berry1934–2026Part of an endorsement statement for The Dying of the Trees (1997) by Charles E. Little
- Wendell Berry1934–2026“Compromise, Hell!” Orion magazine (November/December 2004)
- Wendell Berry1934–2026“Below” in A Part (1980)
It is impossible to care for each other more or differently than we care for the earth.
Wendell Berry1934–2026The Unsettling of America (1977), Chapter Seven: The Body and the Earth
