Quotes About Science

It's only half completed, I'm afraid—we haven't even finished burying the artificial dinosaur skeletons in the crust

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

Ford handed the book to Arthur. "What is it?" asked Arthur. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's a sort of electronic book. It tells you everything you need to know about anything. That's its job.

La scienza ha raggiunto traguardi meravigliosi, certo, ma io preferirei essere felice piuttosto che avere sempre ragione.

The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife. Trin

Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules.

Trillian punched up the figures. They showed two-to-the-power-of-Infinity-minus-one to one against (an irrational number that only has a conventional meaning in Improbability Physics).

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is, as has been remarked before often and accurately, a pretty startling kind of a thing.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term "Future Perfect" has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.

Desde luego, la ciencia ha logrado cosas maravillosas, pero yo preferiría, con mucho, ser feliz.

had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.

Bistromathics," he said, "the most powerful computational force known to parascience.

The scientists at the Institute thus discovered the driving force behind all change, development and innovation in life, which was this: herring sandwiches. They published a paper to this effect, which was widely criticized as being extremely stupid.

Is there any tea on this spaceship?

What's this fish doing in my ear?" "It's translating for you. It's a Babel fish. Look it up in the book if you like.

we haven't even finished burying the artificial dinosaur skeletons in the crust yet.

Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day." "And are you?" "No. That's where it all falls down, of course.

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One of the problems has to do with the speed of light and the difficulties involved in trying to exceed it. You can't.

She was, after all, a mathematician and astrophysicist by training and a television presenter by experience, and what science she had forgotten over the years she was more than capable of making up by bluffing.

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.' 'And are you?' 'No. That's where it all falls down, of course.

something was moving quietly through the ionosphere many miles above the surface of the planet; several somethings in fact

You're right, a spleen is a strange thing-we technically don't need one, but maybe spleens are kept in our bodies in case we mutate or evolve, and if we grow wings or tentacles we need to have the spleen in place in order for them to work.