QUOTES
Science quotes

- “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein - “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov - “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein - “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
― Albert Einstein - “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan - “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
― Albert Einstein - “Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
― Terry Pratchett - “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr - “I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here.”
― Arthur C. Clarke - “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
― Stephen Hawking - “Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
― Dan Brown - “In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
― Terry Pratchett - “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens - “Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
― Albert Einstein - “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
― Charles Darwin - “The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson - “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
― John Keats - “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie - “For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson - “Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
― Carl Sagan - “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.”
― Isaac Asimov - “Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”
― Douglas Adams - “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
― Isaac Newton - “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan - “A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche - “It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
― Albert Einstein - “Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.”
― Stephen Hawking - “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke - “For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
― Carl Sagan - “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― Buckminster Fuller - “I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I’ll be waiting for you there.”
― David Mitchell - “Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.”
― Richard P. Feynman - “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
― Carl Sagan - “I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”
― Abraham Lincoln - “In my opinion, we don’t devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.”
― Bill Watterson - “Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”
― Michael Crichton - “If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”
― Douglas Adams - “We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”
― Ray Bradbury - “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
― Albert Einstein - “God does not play dice with the universe.”
― Albert Einstein - “Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.”
― Martin Luther King - “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
― Abraham Maslow - “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”
― Albert Einstein - “Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
― Albert Einstein - “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
― Galileo Galilei - “We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
― Douglas Adams - “I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
― Richard P. Feynman - “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
― Richard P. Feynman - “We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.”
― Carl Sagan - “Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”
― Terry Pratchett - “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
― Charles Darwin - “The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions.”
― Claude Levi-Strauss - “The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
― Nikola Tesla - “A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
― Daniel Kahneman - “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
― Will Durant - “I don’t want to believe. I want to know.”
― Carl Sagan - “I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
― Antonio Gramsci - “The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
― Niels Bohr - “I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
― Isaac Newton - “Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Jules Verne - “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”
― Carl Sagan - “How inappropriate to call this planet “Earth,” when it is clearly “Ocean.”
― Arthur C. Clarke - “If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”
― Albert Einstein - “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents… some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.”
― H.P. Lovecraft - “Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry…”
― Thomas Jefferson - “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
― Albert Einstein - “Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.”
― Dan Brown - “It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.”
― G.K. Chesterton - “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
― John Lubbock - “Tell me, tutor,’ I said. ‘Is revenge a science, or an art?”
― Mark Lawrence - “Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”
― Richard P. Feynman - “Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.”
― John Lubbock - “Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
― Clive James - “The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there’s any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson - “I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.”
― Stephen Hawking - “Isn’t that what it means to be a scientist? To push the boundaries of the unknown? To bravely, actively explore the enormity of our universe ?”
― Robyn Mundell - “It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”
― Sigmund Freud - “There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.”
― Bill Bryson - “One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike — and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”
― Albert Einstein - “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”
― Richard Feynman - “The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.”
― Carl Sagan - “In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.”
― Stephen W. Hawking - “Problem is (follow me closely here, the science is pretty complicated), if I cut a hole in the Hab, the air won’t stay inside anymore.”
― Andy Weir - “Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.”
― H.G. Wells - “God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.”
― Michael Crichton - “I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.”
― Carl Sagan - “There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson - “We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.”
― Bertrand Russell - “He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.”
― Epicurus - “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
― Thomas A. Edison - “Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.”
― Victor Stenger - “No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.”
― Sigmund Freud - “I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.”
― Rene Descartes - “In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”
― Galileo Galilei - “I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson - “Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”
― Werner Heisenberg - “We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.”
― Richard P. Feynman - “There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”
― Hippocrates - “It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.”
― Bill Bryson
“If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck