Science Quotations

The price of a metaphor is eternal vigilance.
–Alexander Rosenbluth and Norbert Wiener

[I]t is a rule of evolution that characters at first merely an asset will, if they are retained long enough, finally become, through correlative evolutionary changes, a necessity... –Hermann Muller Genetic aspects of sex. Am. Nat. 66: 118-138 (1932).

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
–Wernher von Braun