I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.

Carl Sagan, “Cosmos”

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

Albert Einstein

The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.

Richard Dawkins, “The God delusion (TV)”

“Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you'd generally get to somewhere else — if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing.”
“A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”

Lewis Carroll, “Through the looking-glass”

The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee.

Carl Sagan

I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.

Albert Einstein

Matter tells space how to curve;
space tells matter how to move.

John Wheeler (sacrificing accuracy for snappiness: space should actually read spacetime)

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

James Randi

If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?

Robin Williams

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

There are people so poor that the only thing they have is money.

unknown

Cause when a guy does something stupid once, well that's because he's a guy. But if he does the same stupid thing twice, that's usually to impress some girl.

Dr. Seuss

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

Richard Feynman

I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.

Robert M. Sapolsky

Always be yourself. Unless you can be a unicorn. Then always be a unicorn.

unknown

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine - it is stranger than we can imagine.

Sir Arthur Eddington

Curiouser and curiouser!

Lewis Carroll, “Alice in Wonderland”

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.

Henri Poincaré, “Science and Hypothesis”

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

H.L. Mencken

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.

Niels Bohr

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.

Bertrand Russell

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

Thomas Aquinas

Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.

Daniel C. Dennett