These scientific research quotes will inspire you. Scientific research is the research performed by applying systematic and constructed scientific methods to obtain, analyze, and interpret data.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging scientific research quotes, scientific research sayings, and scientific research proverbs.
Best Scientific Research Quotes
- “Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.” ~ Frederick Sanger
- “Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly.” ~ Joseph Rotblat
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“I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still have time to do scientific research. We have to be ready to support those Shuttle visits in a lot of different ways.” ~ John L. Phillips
- “Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of scientific research.” ~ I. Bernard Cohen
- “… scientific research is compounded of … empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.” ~ James Bryant Conant
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“Basic scientific research is scientific capital.” ~ Vannevar Bush
- “We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad – if any – in the application of their scientific research.” ~ Kenichi Fukui
- “One of the things that I’ve been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?” ~ Seth Lloyd
- “I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“Science is simply common sense at its best.” ~ Thomas Huxley
- “Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.” ~ Max Gluckman
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“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.” ~ Edwin Powell Hubble
- “The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.” ~ Thomas Huxley
- “In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.” ~ Francis Darwin
- “The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.” ~ Lord Kelvin
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“We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.” ~ Bill Watterson
- “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…'” ~ Isaac Asimov
- “Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.” ~ John Dewey
- “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” ~ Albert Einstein
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“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” ~ Wernher von Braun
- “The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.” ~ William Lawrence Bragg
- “Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.” ~ Adam Smith
- “Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.” ~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Science does not know its debt to imagination.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Knowledge acquired in biological research is seldom directly applicable to human beings … The results of scientific research, obtained under these conditions, cannot be applied directly to human beings who vary widely in their hereditary make-up, in their environment, and in their past health record.” ~ John Boyd Orr
- “…to continue to be one of the world centres for scientific research, we have to stand up and be counted in support of researchers, go on marches and demonstrations, and back even tougher action by the police and the courts against these terrorists.” ~ Jack Straw
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“Of course much remains to know, but we know how to learn: through scientific research.” ~ Mario Bunge
- “Paradoxical as it may at first appear, the fact is that, as W. H. George has said, scientific research is an art, not a science.” ~ William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
- “Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty.” ~ Albert Einstein , Scientific research quotes life
- “Neither of us can come to either a knowledge of God or a denial of God by our scientific research.” ~ George Coyne
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“Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant.” ~ Paul Dirac
- “Oil is a very valuable resource for life – electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-oil era. And that’s what we must discuss: searching and developing new sources of energy. And that requires scientific research. That requires investment. And the developed countries must be the ones to assume this responsibility first.” ~ Hugo Chavez
- “Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students’ math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.” ~ Thad Cochran
- “”Endow scientific research and we shall know the truth, when and where it is possible to ascertain it;” but the counterblast is at hand: “To endow research is merely to encourage the research for endowment; the true man of science will not be held back by poverty, and if science is of use to us, it will pay for itself.” Such are but a few samples of the conflict of opinion which we find raging around us.” ~ Karl Pearson
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“The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.” ~ Sam Harris
- “I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet to meet a successful scientist who lacks the ability to exaggerate the importance of what he or she is doing, and I believe that someone who lacks a delusional sense of significance will wilt in the face of repeated experiences of multiple small failures and rare successes, the fate of most researchers.” ~ Daniel Kahneman
- “I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Every scientist, through personal study and research, completes himself and his own humanity. … Scientific research constitutes for you, as it does for many, the way for the personal encounter with truth, and perhaps the privileged place for the encounter itself with God, the Creator of heaven and earth. Science shines forth in all its value as a good capable of motivating our existence, as a great experience of freedom for truth, as a fundamental work of service. Through research each scientist grows as a human being and helps others to do likewise.” ~ Pope John Paul II
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“What I’ve tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.” ~ Temple Grandin
- “I happen to be a kind of monkey. I have a monkeylike curiosity that makes me want to feel, smell, and taste things which arouse my curiosity, then to take them apart. It was born in me. Not everybody is like that, but a scientific researchist should be. Any fool can show me an experiment is useless. I want a man who will try it and get something out of it.” ~ Willis R. Whitney
- “…I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as the instinct of virtue, & that our having such an instinct is reason enough for scientific researches without any practical results ever ensuing from them.” ~ Charles Darwin
- “Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations did not matter, or even your intuition. You needed your luck, and whatever benefits accrued to the diligent, through sheer, grinding hard work.” ~ Michael Crichton
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“I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory.” ~ Kevin J. Anderson
- “The endeavor of scientific research to see events in their more general connection in order to determine their laws, is a legitimate and useful occupation. Any protest against such efforts, in the name of freefom from restrictive conditions, would be fruitless if science did not naïvely identify the abstractions called rules and laws with the actually efficacious forces, and confuse the probability that B will follow A with the actual effort make B follow A.” ~ Max Horkheimer
- “Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.” ~ Chuck Grassley
- “Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge.” ~ Lisa Randall
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“Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.” ~ Jeff Merkley
- “Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative. Scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given.” ~ Ludwig von Mises
- “D’Alembert was always surrounded by controversy. … he was the lightning rod which drew sparks from all the foes of the philosophes. … Unfortunately he carried this… pugnacity into his scientific research and once he had entered a controversy, he argued his cause with vigour and stubbornness. He closed his mind to the possibility that he might be wrong.” ~ Jean le Rond d’Alembert
- “An additional concern of leadership is the caution that some members of the nation’s stem- cell research community have raised about state investments in this new area of scientific research.” ~ Joe Donnelly
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“For scientific researchers, charitable donations are enormous engines of new opportunities.” ~ Leroy Hood
- “Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it must be thrown overboard. The fact that such an extraordinary opinion should be expressed in responsible scientific quarters is widely taken to be significant of the all-round unreliability of human knowledge. This indeed is a very serious situation.” ~ Max Planck
- “The responsibility for the creation of new scientific knowledge – and for most of its application – rests on that small body of men and women who understand the fundamental laws of nature and are skilled in the techniques of scientific research. We shall have rapid or slow advance on any scientific frontier depending on the number of highly qualified and trained scientists exploring it.” ~ Vannevar Bush
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“There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.” ~ Thomas Cech
- “Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.” ~ B.K.S. Iyengar
- “Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.” ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
