223 Amazing Science Facts, Tidbits and Quotes

“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.” – John Cage

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." – Albert Einstein

"The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds” – John F Kennedy

"If you don't reward failure, people will hang on to a doomed idea for fear of the consequences" – Astro Teller

"The people who change the world aren't the people who ask questions, but those who question the answers" – Ann Brown

"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions." – Claude Lévi-Strauss

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them" – Galileo Galilei

"A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points." – Madeleine L'Engle

"We live in a society dependant on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows a thing about science and technology." – Carl Sagan

"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge." – Nicolaus Copernicus