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.
(#) Carl Sagan
(#) Walter Cronkite
(#) John F. Kennedy
(#) Edward R. Murrow
2. Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
(#) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(#) William Blake
(#) T.S. Eliot
(#) Charles Dickens
3. Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
(#) John Locke
(#) Rene Descartes
(#) Alexander Graham Bell
(#) Thomas Edison
4. Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
(#) Linus Pauling
(#) Albert Einstein
(#) Stephen Hawking
(#) Thomas Edison
5. For NASA, space is still a high priority.
(#) George W. Bush
(#) Michelle Bachmann
(#) Dan Quayle
(#) Glenn Beck
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
(#) Neil Armstrong
(#) Tom Hanks
(#) Buzz Aldrin
7. Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
(#) Archimedes
(#) Isaac Newton
(#) Albert Einstein
(#) Winston Churchill
8. I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
(#) Carl Sagan
(#) Marlon Perkins
(#) Jacques Cousteau
(#) Isaac Asimov
9. No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
(#) Isaac Newton
(#) Stephen Hawking
(#) Albert Einstein
(#) Thomas Edison
10. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
(#) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(#) Dalai Lama
(#) Mohandas Gandhi
(#) Nelson Mandela
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