"I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

"I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale."
-- Marie Curie (physicist & chemist, 1867-1934)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie

"Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it.

"Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end to divine things."
-- Hippocrates (physician, 460 BC - 370 BC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocrates

"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so."

"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so."
-- Galileo Galilei (physicist & mathematician, 1564-1642)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-- Arthur C. Clarke (author and futurist, 1917-2008)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke

"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence."
-- Louis Pasteur (chemist & microbiologist, 1822-1892) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur

"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."

"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."
-- Carl Sagan (astronomer & astrophysicist, 1934-1996)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan

"We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his...

"We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."
-- Charles Darwin (naturalist, 1809 - 1882)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin