Somewhere, there is something incredible waiting to be known.
--- Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

The aims of pure basic science, unlike those of applied science, are neither fast-flowing nor pragmatic. The quick harvest of applied science is the useable process, the medicine, the machine. The shy fruit of pure science is understanding.
--- Lincoln Barnett, Journalist

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
--- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Watch the stars, and from them learn.
--- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
--- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

We wish to find the truth, no matter where it lies. But to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact.
--- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)

Science is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualisation.
-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
-- Miquel De Unamuno (1864-1936)

If you are a scientist you believe that it is good to find out how the world works, that it is good to find out what the realities are, that it is good to turn over to mankind at large the greatest possible power to control the world... It is not possible to be a scientist unless you believe that the knowledge of the world, and the power which this gives, is a thing which is of intrinsic value to humanity, and that you are using it to help in the spread of knowledge, and are willing to take the consequences.
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)