Which Scientist Said What Quiz

1. “There is no law except the law that there is no law.”

2. “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

3. “You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.”

4. “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”

5. “We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”

6. “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

7. “Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.”

8. “A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”

9. “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”

10. “I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.”

11. “In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.”

12. “I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.”