Science quotes

“Everything can be broken down to numbers. Science will be earth's salvation.”
John Turturro - Sid Lidz

“- Grushinsky: I thought you teach science!
- Joy Miller: Teach it? I didn't even pass it!”
Ian McNeice - Ira Grushinsky
Fran Drescher - Joy Miller

“I'll never understand what possessed my mother to put her faith in God's hands, rather than her local geneticist.”
Ethan Hawke - Vincent Freeman

“Science is like someone who tells you the end of a movie before you've watched it! I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!”
Harry Shearer - Ned Flanders

“This reminds me of the time I attempted to reach the center of the earth. I'd be reading my favorite author, Jules Verne. I spent weeks preparing that expedition, I didn't even get this far. Of course, I was only 12 at the time. You know, it was the writings of Jules Verne that had a profound effect on my life. It was when I was 11 that I first...” (continue)(continue reading)

Chris Lloyd - Dr. Emmett Brown

“- Frank Mazzetti: This crap you're dishing out here, you trying to tell us you've got some kind of doomsday machine in there or something?
- Captain Stefan Svevo: With the information commonly available today, any enterprising... science student could build a nuclear device.”
Peter Boyle - Frank Mazzetti
Telly Savalas - Captain Stefan Svevo

“Months of experiments, eleven different formulas, now a scalp transplant and it's still not working.”
Colin Fox - Edmund Delhurst

“- Scott Evil: I hate you! I hate you! I wish I was never artificially created in a lab!
- Dr. Evil: Scott, that hurts daddy when you say that. Honestly.”
Seth Green - Scott Evil
Mike Myers - Dr. Evil

“- Olsen: Doctor, were you interested in science as a child?
- Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr: I don't know if I was interested so much in the science as I was in the slime that goes along with it. Snakes and frogs. When I saw how slimy the human brain was, I knew that's what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.”
Francis X. McCarthy - Olsen
Steve Martin - Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr

You wanna hear something really nutty? I heard of a couple guys who wanna build something called an "airplane", you know, you get people to go in, and fly around like birds, it's ridiculous, right? And what about breaking the sound barrier, or rockets to the moon, or atomic energy, or a mission to Mars? Science fiction, right?

Jodie Foster - Eleanor Arroway

“- Professor Bruckner: Cloning. What if I were to tell you that I could take a scraping of skin from your finger and create another Ezra Lieberman?
- Ezra Lieberman: I would tell you not to waste your time on my finger.”
Bruno Ganz - Professor Bruckner
Laurence Olivier - Ezra Lieberman

“Why try to argue science with a book keeper.”
Anthony Zerbe - Abner Devereaux

“- Sally Salt: But why? Why?
- Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen: Why, why, why! Because it's all logic and reason now. Science, progress, laws of hydraulics, laws of social dynamics, laws of this, that, and the other. No place for three-legged cyclops in the South Seas. No place for cucumber trees and oceans of wine. No place for me.”

Sarah Polley - Sally Salt
John Neville - Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen

“My experiments did not turn out quite like yours, Henry. But science, like love, has her little surprises. As you shall see.”
Ernest Thesiger - Doctor Pretorius