These scientific quotes will inspire you. Scientific is of, relating to, or exhibiting the methods or principles of science.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging scientific quotes, scientific sayings, and scientific proverbs.
Famous Scientific Quotes
- “Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.” – Jean Piaget
- “Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.” – Wilhelm Reich
- “We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.” – Kary Mullis
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“Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.” – Albert Einstein
- “For every scientific or engineering action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.” – Norman Ralph Augustine
- “Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.” – Isaac Asimov
- “A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn’t. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.” – Karl Jaspers
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“A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified.” – Richard Dawkins
- “Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.” – John Dewey
- “Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.” – Oliver Heaviside
- “This means that to entrust to science – or to deliberate control according to scientific principles – more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.” – Friedrich August von Hayek
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“Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.” – Frederick Sanger
- “Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.” – Ernst Mayr
- “Scientific inquiry shouldn’t stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson
- “In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.” – Albert Einstein
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“The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.” – Thomas Huxley
- “Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.” – Thom Mayne
- “Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.” – Richard Dawkins
- “Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition of truth is doomed to failure equally.” – Willard Van Orman Quine
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“Great scientific discoveries have been made by men seeking to verify quite erroneous theories about the nature of things.” – Aldous Huxley
- “Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.” – Claude Levi-Strauss
- “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” – Max Planck
- “Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.” – Jean Piaget
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“The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.” – Robert M. Pirsig
- “Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements.” – Jill Lepore
- “Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.” – Abdus Salam
- “Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.” – Percy Williams Bridgman
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“Scientific reasoning is a kind of dialogue between the possible and the actual, between what might be and what is in fact the case.” – Peter Medawar
- “In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.” – Thomas Huxley
- “The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.” – Claude Levi-Strauss
- “Scientific discovery is not valuable unless it has commercial value.” – John A. McDougall
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“Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.” – Richard P. Feynman
- “Scientific truth will out, you can’t hide the sun under a stone” – Ursula K Le Guin
- “The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.” – Alison Gopnik
- “Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action” – John Maynard Smith
- “Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.” – Richard Leakey
