Funny Science Quotes
September 5, 2009 Leave a comment
“Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.” — Bertrand Russell
“If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.” — Albert Einstein
“In mathematics, you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.” — John von Neumann
“It was absolutely marvelous working for Pauli. You could ask him anything. There was no worry that he would think a particular question was stupid, since he thought all questions were stupid.” –Victor Frederick Weisskopf
“Do not worry about your problems with mathematics; I assure you, mine are far greater” — Albert Einstein
“Your theory is crazy. But it’s not crazy enough to be true.” — Neils Bohr
“Hell, there are no rules here. We’re trying to accomplish something” — Thomas Edison
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” — Albert Einstein
“If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.” — Albert Einstein
“Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different” — Goethe
“Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means.” — Henri Poincare
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” — Albert Einstein
” I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong.” — Bertrand Russell
“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.” — Bertrand Russell
“I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it the right way, did not become still more complicated. ” — Paul Anderson
“God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.” – Andre Weil
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” — Albert Einstein