Lord Kelvin

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.