Here are some random quotes about science, astronomy or computers. This page has spawned similar pages such as Matt's and Clive's.
"Without quantum mechanics we'd fall through the floor."Paddy Leahy 22/03/2010
"My view is more important than everyone else's."Anonymous 23/11/2009
"I just have to go fight a Dutchman."A Wilkinson 16/09/2009
"I never do anything irrevocable after 3pm."Tess Jaffe 21/07/2009
"Doesn't mean to say he can't do wind-ups. Just because he's an astronomer doesn't mean to say he has to tell the truth."Rebecca (Beccy) Huxtable (BBC Radio 1) 19/12/2008
"I've been to Jodrell Bank; they know what they're talking about at Jodrell Bank."Mark (Chappers) Chapman (BBC Radio 1) 19/12/2008
"Brain the mass of a planet, size of a pea!"Anonymous 10/9/2008
"There are several places in the universe that you look at and think 'I wouldn't want to live there'. Look at them from several megaparsecs perhaps, but not live in them."Ian Stewart 21/4/2008
"I'm constipated"Samuele Galeotta 26/2/2008 (It can be important to know the difference between congestion and constipation)
"[Talking about peanut butter sandwiches] Laurent thinks I'm nuts."Tess Jaffe 12/2007 (Unintentional pun #3)
"[Talking about getting people to submit conference proceedings] I've been beating people into submission."Rob Beswick 12/2007 (Unintentional pun #2)
"[Talking about the surfing cosmologist's paper] It's been making big waves in the past few days."Tess Jaffe 12/2007 (Unintentional pun #1)
"A shrimp is just an underwater grasshopper. To first order anywhere"Peter Wilkinson 13/7/2007
"I've seen all this before. There must be a sausage here somewhere."Richard Davis 12/7/2007
"There's nothing illegal about anything in a jar"Tess Jaffe 10/7/2007
"[Jodrell Bank] it's like being in the middle of a desert"Mohammed Ebadinejad June 2007
"I'm like a bushman"Mohammed Ebadinejad June 2007
"That is eight as in one."Dave Tideswell 22/8/2005
"Astronomy makes good radio."Rhod Sharp (BBC Radio FiveLive's Up All Night) 9/8/2005
"Change is so rapid, the far future is now only five years away."Charlie Stross 8/8/2005
"Get the thesis done, then we can do the science"Anon 1/4/2005.
"Your telescope is a lot more physically virtual."Chris Wareing 8/12/2004 (while talking about my computer simulation).
"I've got no strong opinions on anything me."Clive Dickinson 17/9/2003
"Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out.Thomas Cardinal Wolsey (1471-1530)
"...they [Nicolaus Copericus University's mathematicians] use deterministic cows to study the stock exchange"Marcin Gawroñski February 2004 (just to clarify that should have been deterministic chaos!)
"My ultimate dream in life is for Tesco to buy Walmart"Clive Dickinson November 2003
"Research is like a terrier with a rat; you've just got to shake it until it's dead."Peter Wilkinson 17/6/2003
"Sounds like a jolly good idea."The Prince of Wales's summing up of radio astronomy
"There's nothing more relaxing than a field of cows"Clive Dickinson 15/8/2002
"Powerful but cranky"Description of IDL on Dave Fanning's Website
"Give me matter and motion and I will construct the universe."Rene Descartes
"...this fool, wishes to reverse the entire history of astronomy."Martin Luther on Copernicus