The Science of Quotes
Ah, science. The path to the future. Some really smart people have had some really good things to say about it. I'm sure some dumb ones have as well, but I'm not bothering with them. Anyway, who said what?
"I'm an idealist without illusions." -John F. Kennedy
Quiz created by: Bill Graves
1. A satellite has no conscience.
(#) Walter Cronkite
(#) Edward R. Murrow
(#) Carl Sagan
(#) John F. Kennedy
2. Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
(#) William Blake
(#) T.S. Eliot
(#) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(#) Charles Dickens
3. Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
(#) Alexander Graham Bell
(#) Thomas Edison
(#) Rene Descartes
(#) John Locke
4. Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
(#) Albert Einstein
(#) Linus Pauling
(#) Stephen Hawking
(#) Thomas Edison
5. For NASA, space is still a high priority.
(#) Michelle Bachmann
(#) Glenn Beck
(#) George W. Bush
(#) Dan Quayle
6. From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.
(#) Neil Armstrong
(#) Richard Nixon
(#) Tom Hanks
(#) Buzz Aldrin
7. Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
(#) Albert Einstein
(#) Winston Churchill
(#) Archimedes
(#) Isaac Newton
8. I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
(#) Carl Sagan
(#) Jacques Cousteau
(#) Marlon Perkins
(#) Isaac Asimov
9. No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
(#) Isaac Newton
(#) Stephen Hawking
(#) Albert Einstein
(#) Thomas Edison
10. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
(#) Mohandas Gandhi
(#) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(#) Dalai Lama
(#) Nelson Mandela
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