These Science quotes will inspire you.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging science quotes, science sayings, and science proverbs.
Inspirational Science Quotes
- “Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.” ~ Louis Pasteur
- “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 , Science quotes on mistakes
- “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ~ Isaac Asimov
- “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe.” ~ Ken Jenkins
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“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.” ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
- “But in physics, I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all the many things that clutter up the mind, and divert it from the essential. The hitch in this was, of course, the fact that one had to cram all this stuff into one’s mind for the examination, whether one liked it or not.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “The Lincoln Highway is to be something more than a road. It will be a road with a personality, a distinctive work of which the Americans of future generations can point with pride – an economic but also artistic triumph. (1914)” ~ Carl G. Fisher
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“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
- “Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.” ~ William Blake
- “Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” ~ Carl Sagan
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“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.” ~ John Ruskin
- “Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either, we dispense with the need for reflection.” ~ Henri Poincare , Science quotes believe
- “[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.” ~ Isidor Isaac Rabi
- “People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing-room full of dukes.” ~ W. H. Auden
- “In some sense, man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.” ~ David Bohm
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“Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.” ~ Niels Bohr
- “Touch a scientist and you touch a child.” ~ Ray Bradbury
- “We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.” ~ Ray Bradbury , Science quotes on universe
- “Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.” ~ Jacob Bronowski
- “Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.” ~ Luis Bunuel
- “And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.” ~ Samuel Butler
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“Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.” ~ Arthur C. Clarke
- “Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.” ~ Arthur C. Clarke
- “I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.” ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
- “I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.” ~ Oliver Cromwell
- “Everybody’s a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We’re all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.” ~ David Cronenberg
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“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.” ~ Charles Darwin
- “The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.” ~ Richard Dawkins
- “I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.” ~ Rene Descartes
- “The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
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“I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
- “Inquiry is fatal to certainty.” ~ Will Durant
- “When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!” ~ Albert Einstein
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“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “The faster you go, the shorter you are.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“It is only to the individual that a soul is given.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.” ~ Richard P. Feynman , Science quotes about time
- “Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.” ~ Michael J. Fox
- “Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.” ~ Stephen Hawking
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“Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.” ~ Thomas Huxley
- “We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.” ~ Alfred Hitchcock
- “I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions – adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- “Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber if he has common sense on the ground floor. But if a man hasn’t got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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“It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.” ~ Carl Jung
- “It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct.” ~ Michio Kaku
- “Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.” ~ Stephen Leacock
Summary: Science (from Latin Scientia ‘knowledge’) is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.
