The Science of Quotes
Ah, science. The path to the future. Some really smart people have had some really good things to say about it. I'm sure some dumb ones have as well, but I'm not bothering with them. Anyway, who said what?
"I'm an idealist without illusions." -John F. Kennedy
Quiz created by: Bill Graves
1. A satellite has no conscience.
(#) Edward R. Murrow
(#) John F. Kennedy
(#) Walter Cronkite
(#) Carl Sagan
2. Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
(#) William Blake
(#) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(#) T.S. Eliot
(#) Charles Dickens
3. Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
(#) Alexander Graham Bell
(#) John Locke
(#) Thomas Edison
(#) Rene Descartes
4. Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
(#) Linus Pauling
(#) Albert Einstein
(#) Thomas Edison
(#) Stephen Hawking
5. For NASA, space is still a high priority.
(#) Glenn Beck
(#) George W. Bush
(#) Michelle Bachmann
(#) Dan Quayle
6. From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.
(#) Richard Nixon
(#) Tom Hanks
(#) Neil Armstrong
(#) Buzz Aldrin
7. Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
(#) Albert Einstein
(#) Isaac Newton
(#) Archimedes
(#) Winston Churchill
8. I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
(#) Carl Sagan
(#) Jacques Cousteau
(#) Isaac Asimov
(#) Marlon Perkins
9. No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
(#) Isaac Newton
(#) Albert Einstein
(#) Thomas Edison
(#) Stephen Hawking
10. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
(#) Dalai Lama
(#) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(#) Mohandas Gandhi
(#) Nelson Mandela
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