Science Quotes
Science is the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. Science and the technologies it created make our lives a lot easier and forms the basis of all human activity.
Below, you will find a list of science quotes from famous scientist. We hope these quotes will inspire you to explore the world, make new discoveries and be motivated to make the world a better place.
55 Famous Science Quotes & Sayings
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”― Isaac Asimov
“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”― Albert Einstein
“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
“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”― Dan Brown
“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.” – Robert A. Heinlein.
“The reward of the young scientist is the emotional thrill of being the first person in the history of the world to see something or to understand something. Nothing can compare with that experience.” – Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
“Our virtues and our failures are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.” – Nikola Tesla
“In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.” – Sir William Osler
“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.” – Rosalind Franklin
“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” – Carl Sagan
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” – Immanuel Kant
“The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.” – Edward Teller
“Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.” – Jacob Bronowski
“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.” – Albert Einstein
“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
“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions.” ― Claude Levi-Strauss
“Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.” – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.” – Richard Dawkins
“Science is magic that works.” – Kurt Vonnegut
“There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.” – Isaac Asimov
“Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.” – Donald E. Knuth
“Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.” – J. B. S. Haldane
“Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.” – Carl Sagan
“Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.” – Stephen Hawking
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”― Albert Einstein
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”― Carl Sagan
“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
“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr
― Niels Bohr
“What you learn from a life in science is the vastness of our ignorance.” – David Eagleman
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” – Issac Newton
“Impossible only means that you haven’t found the solution yet.” – Anonymous
“Every brilliant experiment, like every great work of art, starts with an act of imagination.” – Jonah Lehrer
“Science is not only a disciple of reason but also one of romance and passion.” – Stephen Hawking
“All outstanding work, in art as well as in science, results from immense zeal applied to a great idea.” – Santiago Ramón y Cajal
“The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.” – Thomas Berger
“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.” – William Blake
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: If there is any reaction, both are transformed.” — C.G. Jung
“Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.” – Thomas Hobbes
“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.” – Edwin Powell Hubble
“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.” – Adam Smith
“In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.” – Thomas Huxley
“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.” – Hippocrates
“Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.” – Robert Sapolsky
“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
“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
“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
“What I love about science is that as you learn, you don’t really get answers. You just get better questions.” – John Green
“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.” – Arthur C. Clarke
“Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.” ― Victor Stenger
“An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.” – Max Planck
“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.” – John Dewey
“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”- Galileo Galilei
“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” – Oscar Wilde