Quotes slides used with music that was played as people were getting seated for the 21st Century Science Follow-up Session.

1. Science Quotes 21 st Century Skills Science Follow-Up

3. “ There is something fascinating about science.” --Mark Twain

4. “ In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.” ~Hugh Walpole

5. “ There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.” -- Percy Williams Bridgman, U. S. Physicist, Nobel Prize, 1946

8. "Polar coordinates aren't just arctic fashions. "

9. "Do not worry too much about your difficulties in science, I can assure you that mine are still greater." -- Albert Einstein

10. Math Quotes "The essence of science is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.”

14. "We have to reinvent the wheel every once in a while, not because we need a lot of wheels; but because we need a lot of inventors." -- Bruce Joyce

15. “ Men love wonder, and that is the seed of science.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

16. "Decimals have a point."

17. Math Quotes "An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages." -- de Fontenelle

18. “ Black holes are where the creator divided by zero.” -- Steven Wright

19. “ Science is common sense at its best.” --Thomas Huxley

23. ” Great scientists are supreme artists." -- Martin H. Fisher

24. “ There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.” -- Percy Williams Bridgman, U. S. Physicist, Nobel Prize, 1946

25. “ The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.” -- Claude Lévi-Strauss, Le Cru et le cuit , 1964

26. If it's green or wriggles, it's biology. If it stinks, it's chemistry . If it doesn't work , it's physics. ~Handy Guide to Science

28. "Teaching is the royal road to learning." -- Jassamyn West

29. "We only think when confronted with a problem.” -- John Dewey

30. "I was x years old in the year x^2.” -- Augustus De Morgan (when asked about his age)

32. “ Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope & the telescope.” -- Theodore Roszak, 1972

36. ” Science is not a spectator sport!"