"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
-- Isaac Asimov (author & biochemist, 1919-1992)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov

"For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls.

"For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys."
-- Sally Ride (physicist & astronaut, 1951-2012)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Ride

"The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them.

"The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion."
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson (astrophysicist, 1958- )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
-- Isaac Newton (physicist & mathematician, 1643-1727)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton

"Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity."

"Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity."
-- Stephen Jay Gould (paleontologist & evolutionary biologist, 1941-2002)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould

"Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks; but an accumulation of facts is no more science than...

"Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks; but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house."
-- Henri Poincaré (mathematician & physicist, 1854-1912)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9

"If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of...

"If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness."
-- Carl Sagan (astronomer & astrophysicist, 1934-1996)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_sagan