• Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus III: “It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe."

• Albert Einstein: "The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder."

• Willis Harman, Metaphysics and Modern Science: “Science is all about cause. Now, if really everything is connected to everything, if there really is only a oneness, everything then affects everything, and the whole idea of causality has to be revised.”

• William Bragg: "The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."

• Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man: "The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."

• Marston Bates: "Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind."

• Ernest Rutherford: "All science is either physics or stamp collecting."

• Joseph Roux: "Science is for those who learn; poetry for those who know."

• Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis: "Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house."

• Albert Einstein: "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."

• Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839 - 1903): "One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity."

• William Inge: "Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true."

• Isaac Asimov (1920-1992): "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not Eureka! -- I found it! -- but, That's funny ...!!"

• Sir Isaac Newton: "No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess."

• Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi: "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."

• Max Planck in Scientific Autobiography: "My original decision to devote myself to science was a direct result of the discovery which has never ceased to fill me with enthusiasm since my early youth -- the comprehension of the far from obvious fact that the laws of human reasoning coincide with the laws governing the sequences of the impressions we receive from the world about us; that, therefore, pure reasoning can enable man to gain an insight into the mechanism of the later. In this connection, it is of paramount importance that the outside world is something independent from man, something absolute, and the quest for the laws which apply to this absolute appeared to me as the most sublime scientific pursuit in life."

• Stephen Hawking: "Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying."

• Dr. Gary E. Schwartz, U. of Arizona, The AfterLife Experiments: "Physics teaches us that it's scientifically appropriate to infer the existence of invisible processes through careful observation in repeated experiments."

• Nikola Tesla: "I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything."

• Carl Jung: "Meaningful coincidences are thinkable as pure chance. But the more they multiply and the greater and more exact the correspondence is, the more their probability sinks and the unthinkability increases, until they can no longer be regarded as pure chance but, for lack of a causal explanation, have to be thought of as meaningful arrangements."

• Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio: "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."

• Isaac Newton: "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

• Roger von Oech, A Whack On the Side Of The Head: "By the time the average person finishes college he or she will have taken over 2,600 tests, quizzes and exams. The 'right answer' approach becomes deeply ingrained in our thinking. This may be fine for some mathematical problems, where there is in fact only one right answer. The difficulty is that most of life isn't that way. Life is ambiguous; there are many right answers - all depending on what you are looking for. But if you think there is only one right answer, then you'll stop looking as soon as you find one."

"Meaningful coincidences are thinkable as pure chance. But the more they multiply and the greater and more exact the correspondence is, the more their probability sinks and the unthinkability increases, until they can no longer be regarded as pure chance but, for lack of a causal explanation, have to be thought of as meaningful arrangements."

                         Carl Jung