“If an expert says it is possible, he is almost certainly right. If an expert says it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”— Fritz Zwicky
“The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.”— J. B. S. Haldane
“The theory of roughness, the theory of the irregular, of the chaotic, is now at the center of science.”— Benoit Mandelbrot
“I have not been asked to prophesy, but to give the results of my study of the laws of storms.”— Cleveland Abbe
“The study of the atmosphere is a problem in hydrodynamics, and I have found it so interesting and difficult that it seems to me to be the problem of my life.”— Cleveland Abbe
“We must not be too surprised if some of these are returned to us from the moon in the form of meteors.”— Francis William Aston
“Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually discovered nothing at all.”— Archimedes
“A forecast is not a prophecy; it is a statement of what is most likely to happen.”— Cleveland Abbe
“Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.”— Anaxagoras
“For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.”— Roger Bacon
“Scientific forecasting... is the only legitimate and logical method of getting at the truth.”— Cleveland Abbe
“The notion that the molecule that carries the genetic information, RNA, could also be a catalyst was a transformative idea.”— Sidney Altman
“Surely there are more levels of organization between human ethology and DNA than there are between DNA and quantum electrodynamics.”— Philip Warren Anderson
“The first definite proof of the reality of isotopes of stable elements was afforded by the element neon.”— Francis William Aston