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2677976 No.2677976 [Reply] [Original]

What is your favorite scientific quote?

Mine is a bit whimsical.

"Observation? You couldn't see a thing. Conclusion? Dinosaurs." -Carl Sagan

lol'd hard when I first heard it.

>> No.2677994

I don't get it.

>> No.2677996

>>2677994
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L6AjxAQoHA&feature=BF&list=ULMe079ZT7xA4&index=12

watch the last 30 seconds or minute or so.

>> No.2678004

well that quote made no sense out of context, but thanks for the video i guess.

i like feynman's analogy of science to a game of chess. it's on youtube i think.

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2678013

Thank you for reminding me, OP.

>> No.2678016

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe

>> No.2678050

when nothing remains, everything becomes equally possible

>> No.2678074

Dinosaurs? This is a science board not an economics board.

>> No.2678085

Maybe the Earth orbits the Sun.

Maybe your wife orbits my cock.

>> No.2678108

requesting picture of a spelunker looking into a pitch black area

On top, "Observation: Couldn't see a thing"

On bottom. "Conclusion: Dinosaurs"

And a nice shoop of a very faint head of a dinosaur in the dark would be good.

>> No.2679139

"You can always find the scientist in a stripclub, because he is the only one staring at the audience"

>> No.2679155
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2679155

"Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are." - Niels Bohr

>> No.2679164

“I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work”

-Edison

>> No.2679201

If you've done everything right no one will have ever noticed

When freedoms is outlawed only outlaws will have freedom

>> No.2679209

>>2679164
how many of those did he steal?

>> No.2679221

>>2679164
>“If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search.
I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.”

-Nikola Tesla

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>> No.2679227

>>2679221
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

-Tesla

>> No.2679412

Don't remember the source of it but Dawkins quoted it in one of his lectures.
I think it was from an editor of a science magazine.

" our motto here at * name of magazine* is science is interesting, if you don't think so, you can fuck off"