Vastuseks küsimusele, miks see juhtus, teen ma tagasihoidliku ettepaneku, et meie Universum on vaid üks neist asjust, mis aeg-ajalt ikka juhtuvad.

Edward P. Tryon

Kui ainus asi, mis sul on, on haamer, hakkab iga probleem meenutama naela.

Abraham Maslow

Matemaatika on mäng, mida mängitakse kindlate, lihtsate reeglite kohaselt mõttetute märkidega paberil.

David Hilbert

Kõik teadused jagunevad kaheks: füüsikaks ja markide kogumiseks.

Ernest Rutherford

Üldine arvamus on eelarvamuste kollektsioon, mis saadakse 18 eluaastaga.

Albert Einstein

Ainus võimalik järeldus, mida sotsiaalteadused võivad teha, on: mõned teevad, mõned mitte.

Ernest Rutherford

Matemaatika ülim eesmärk on elimineerida igasugune vajadus intelligentse mõtlemise järgi.

Alfred North Whitehead

Kas tead, kui loll võib üks keskmine mees olla? Definitsiooni järgi on pooled isegi rumalamad kui see keskmine.

J.R. Dobbs

Mitte ükski füüsik ei asu põrgu kõige kuumemas osas, sest "kõige kuumema osa" olemasolu tähendab temperatuuride erinevust, kuid iga tõeline füüsik kasutaks seda kohe soojusmasina käivitamiseks ning muudaks põrgu mõned muud osad meeldivalt jahedaks. See on aga ilmselt võimatu.

Richard Davisson

Füüsika ei ole religioon. Kui ta oleks, oleks meil palju lihtsam raha hankida.

L. Lederman

Meditsiin teeb inimesed haigeks, matemaatika teeb nad kurvaks ja teoloogia teeb nad patusteks.

Martin Luther

Õige väite vastand on vale väide. Kuid sügava tõe vastand võib olla sama hästi mingi teine sügav tõde.

Niels Bohr

Tulemused! Ma olen saanud väga palju tulemusi. Ma tean tuhandeid asju, mis ei hakka tööle.

Thomas Alva Edison

Teaduses üritab iga teadlane rääkida teistele inimestele viisil, mida igaüks mõistaks, asju, mida mitte keegi pole varem teadnud. Aga poeesias on täpselt vastupidi.

Paul Dirac

Teadus on differentsiaalvõrrand. Religioon on ääretingimus.

Alan Turing

Teadus on üles ehitatud faktidele, nii nagu maja on üles ehitatud kividest; kuid faktide kogum on samavõrd teadus, kui kivihunnik on maja.

Henri Poincare

Minu eesmärk on lihtne. See on täielik arusaamine universumist, miks ta on selline, nagu ta on, ning miks ta üleüldse eksisteerib.

Stephen Hawking

Ma arvan, et on kaugelt tõenäosem, et teated lendavatest taldrikutest on maise intelligentsi tuntud irratsionaalse käitumise tagajärg kui maavälise intelligentsi senitundmatu ratsionaalse pingutuse tulemus.

Richard Feynman

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

Richard Feynman

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Richard Feynman

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

Richard Feynman

I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

Richard Feynman

The supreme arrogance of religious thinking: that a carbon-based bag of mostly water on a spec of iron-silicate dust around a boring dwarf star ... would look up at the sky and declare, "It was all made so that I could exist!"

Peter Walker

With or without religion you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Steven Weinberg

Arvutid on kasutud. Nad suudavad sulle pakkuda ainult vastuseid.

Pablo Picasso

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

Donald Knuth

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Rich Cook

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft, and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.

Werner von Braun

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

Ambrose Bierce

One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.

Robert Firth

There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and [Unix] BSD. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.

Jeremy S. Anderson

If you torture the data enough, it will confess.

Ronald Coase

In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

It is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity, of mastering multitude and avoiding its bastard chaos as effectively as possible.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

The question of whether Machines Can Think… is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a quality that decides between success and failure.

Edsger W. Dijkstra