Smart Science Quotes

#1. We can't all be Einstein (because we don't all play the violin). At the very least, we need a sort of street-smart science: the ability to recognize evidence, gather it, assess it, and act on it.

Judith Stone

#2. Life is a sewer and we are all but swimmers within it. Smart people do the backstroke. (In other words you gotta have a giggle.)

Stephen B. Pearl

#3. It's one of those things that if I was smart enough to explain it in words, I wouldn't have had to make a movie [ "World Of Tomorrow" ] out of it. It's a love letter to science fiction.

Don Hertzfeldt

#4. Where religion clashes with science is that religion makes smart people do stupid things.

P.Z. Myers

#5. There are two kind of mathematicians, smart ones, and dumb ones. I am one of the dumb ones.

Lipman Bers

#6. Most science fiction is about white men who are 25 to 30, who are very smart, who face a physical problem and solve it.

Joe Haldeman

#7. Both groups [of pundits] were critics, and that is the heart of the problem. If you are a pundit, you seem so smart when you are telling the President what he did wrong ... This [is] mostly BS.

Jeffrey A. Miller

#8. It doesn't matter how smart you are, Enigma is always smarter.

Joan Clarke

#9. If Einstein was so smart how come people only call you 'Einstein' when you do something really stupid ?

Brian Regan

#10. When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.

James Altucher

#11. Richard either didn't hear me, or chose to ignore it. Smart, handsome, junior high science teacher, degree in preternatural biology, what more could i ask for? Give me a minute and I'd think of something.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#12. If I have done great things it's because I was standing in the closet of smart men taking notes and then publishing their ideas as my own.

Isaac Newton

#13. Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?

Luis Von Ahn

#14. Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.

Bill Nye

#15. Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

Steve Wozniak

#16. Being a rocket scientist isn't all that smart when you could work in finance.

A.D. Aliwat

#17. Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.

Henry Rollins

#18. Boxing has always been work to me, a job. If I could say anything to a youngster taking up boxing it would be to "be smart and not take a lot of punches". It's called the sweet science for a reason. Hit and not be hit, make a lot of money without taking a lot of punishment. That's what it's about.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#19. I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

Michael Crichton

#20. Smart people still enjoy wide open spaces, much more even than their less bright neighbors, but when they hang with friends they're less happy. One theory as to why is that they feel like they're wasting time.

Satoshi Kanazawa

#21. It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in power; we are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible, and which are not. ...

Carl Sagan

#22. I have to admit, Tanner can be a smart kid. You know, when he's not too busy being completely useless.
(Ryland Ascunse)

Douglas Pershing

#23. I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to be a businessperson.

Rodney Brooks

#24. Science fiction fans are the smartest fans in television. They just are. They're just so smart, and they know so much detail and information. They're a part of the story and they inform your character, as well. We all listen to the fans, and we love their feedback and the attention they give us.

Azita Ghanizada

#25. It doesn't make a difference how beautiful your guess is. It doesn't make a difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is. If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.

Richard Feynman

#26. The Pentagon has been looking into the possibility of developing "smart dust," dust-sized particles that have tiny sensors inside that can be sprayed over a battlefield to give commanders real-time information. In the future it is conceivable that "smart dust" might be sent to the nearby stars.

Michio Kaku