Winston Churchill

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.

If I could snap my fingers and do one thing in science, I would get more funding for basic science. But the level of funding that needs to be done is not on the order of millions, like the cost of the Breakthrough Prizes. It’s billions to tens of billions.

If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-O, or even mineral water, or sake. Meditation is Drinking it!

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.

To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to diligence, or the heights inaccessible to perseverance, is to submit tamely to the tyranny of fancy, and enchain the mind in voluntary shackles.

A physicist is an atom’s way of knowing about atoms.

Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories – those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.