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Science quotes

  1. “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
  2. “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
  3. “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
    ― Albert Einstein
  4. “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
    ― Albert Einstein
  5. “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    ― Carl Sagan
  6. “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
  7. “Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
  8. “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
    ― Niels Bohr
  9. “I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
  10. “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
  11. “Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
    ― Dan Brown
  12. “In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
  13. “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
  14. “Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
    ― Albert Einstein
  15. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
    ― Charles Darwin
  16. “The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
  17. “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
    ― John Keats
  18. “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
  19. “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
  20. “Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
    ― Carl Sagan
  21. “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
  22. “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
  23. “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
    ― Isaac Newton
  24. “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
    ― Carl Sagan
  25. “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
  26. “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
  27. “Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
  28. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
  29. “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
  30. “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
    To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
    ― Buckminster Fuller
  31. “I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I’ll be waiting for you there.”
    ― David Mitchell
  32. “Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
  33. “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
    ― Carl Sagan
  34. “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
  35. “In my opinion, we don’t devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.”
    ― Bill Watterson
  36. “Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”
    ― Michael Crichton
  37. “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
  38. “We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
  39. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
    ― Albert Einstein
  40. “God does not play dice with the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
  41. “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
  42. “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
  43. “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”
    ― Albert Einstein
  44. “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
  45. “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
  46. “We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
    ― Douglas Adams
  47. “I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
  48. “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
  49. “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
  50. “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
  51. “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
  52. “The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions.”
    ― Claude Levi-Strauss
  53. “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
  54. “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
  55. “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
    ― Will Durant
  56. “I don’t want to believe. I want to know.”
    ― Carl Sagan
  57. “I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
    ― Antonio Gramsci
  58. “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
  59. “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
  60. “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
  61. “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”
    ― Carl Sagan
  62. “How inappropriate to call this planet “Earth,” when it is clearly “Ocean.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
  63. “If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”
    ― Albert Einstein
  64. “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
  65. “Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry…”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
  66. “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
  67. “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
  68. “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
  69. “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
  70. “Tell me, tutor,’ I said. ‘Is revenge a science, or an art?”
    ― Mark Lawrence
  71. “Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
  72. “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
  73. “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
  74. “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
  75. “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
  76. “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
  77. “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
  78. “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
  79. “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
  80. “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”
    ― Richard Feynman
  81. “The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.”
    ― Carl Sagan
  82. “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
  83. “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
  84. “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
  85. “God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.”
    ― Michael Crichton
  86. “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
  87. “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
  88. “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
  89. “He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.”
    ― Epicurus
  90. “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
  91. “Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.”
    ― Victor Stenger
  92. “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
  93. “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
  94. “In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”
    ― Galileo Galilei
  95. “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
  96. “Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”
    ― Werner Heisenberg
  97. “We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
  98. “There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”
    ― Hippocrates
  99. “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

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