- "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science." Edwin Powell Hubble
- "To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science." Albert Einstein
- "Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence" Louis Pasteur
- "Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality." Albert Einstein
- "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." Emmanuel Kant
- "The science of today is the technology of tomorrow." Edward Teller
- "Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity." Albert Einstein
- "Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition" Adam Smith
- "Science grows like a weed every year" Kerry Mullis
- "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater." Albert Einstein
- "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
- "We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth" Kenneth R Miller
- "A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God." Alan Perlis
- "To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science." Isaac Newton
- "Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science" Robert Green Ingersoll
- "Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character." Albert Einstein
- "Art is I; Science is we" Claude Bernard
- "Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge" Stephen Hawking
- "For the rest of my life I will reflect on what light is." Albert Einstein
- "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known" Carl Sagan
- "The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day" 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, in "The World as I See It"
- "The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it." Neil deGrasse Tyson
- "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." Albert Einstein
- "Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality" Carl Sagan in "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark"
- "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
- "It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple." Georg Lichtenberg
- "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong." Albert Einstein
- "No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer." Thomas Browne
- "Science does not know its debt to imagination." Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "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
- "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,
- "One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet is the most precious thing we have." Albert Einstein
- "Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science." Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Physics is imagination in a straight jacket." John Moffat
- "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." Paul Dirac
- "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it." Albert Einstein
- "The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it." Robert L. Park
- "I believe that a scientist looking at non scientific problems, is just as dumb as the next guy." Richard Feynman
- "The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music." Lewis Thomas
- "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." Wernher Von Braun
- "Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers." Sir Arthur Eddington
- "Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind." Marston Bates
- "The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions." Claude Lévi-Strauss
- "Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist." Harrison Ford
- "The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down." Alex Jason
- "In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also." Robert Brault
- "A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory." Albert Einstein
- "For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses." Robert M. Pirsig
- "Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue." Robert K. Merton
- "Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated." George Santayana
- "The whole history of physics proves that a new discovery is quite likely lurking at the next decimal place." F.K. Richtmeyer
- "The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels." Fred Alan Wolfe
- "There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance." Hippocrates
- "The doubter is a true man of science; he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science." Claude Bernard
- "In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself — nature does it for you." Frank Wilczek
- "Science without conscience is the soul's perdition." François Rabelais
- "Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without prood." Ashley Montague
- "Quantum physics makes me so happy—it's like looking at the universe naked." Sheldon Cooper
- "Science is the record of dead religions." Oscar Wilde
- "As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant." Albert Einstein
- "I don't care how you get potassium out of kelp; I want to know how kelp gets potassium out of the sea." Willis R. Whitney
- "Physics is geometric proof on steroids." S.A. Sachs
- "God does not play dice with the universe." Albert Einstein
- "Ethics and Science need to shake hands." Richard Clarke Cabot
- "Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent." Stephen Jay Gould
- "Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise." Ivan Pavlov
- "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." Albert Einstein
- "Life preys upon life. This is biology's most fundamental fact." Martin H. Fischer
- "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute—and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity." Albert Einstein
- "But the great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact — which is so constantly being enacted under the eyes of philosophers..." T.H. Huxley
- "DNA was the first three-dimensional Xerox machine." Kenneth Boulding
- "That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on your way to the pertinent answer." Jacob Bronowski
- "In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last." Hugh Walpole
- "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
- "Science is simply common sense at its best." Thomas Huxley
- "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." Carl Sagan
- "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
- "It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young." Konrad Lorenz
- "Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor." Oliver Wendell Holmes
- "Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought." Albert Einstein
- "He whose science exceedeth his sense, perisheth by his ignorance." Old saying
- "I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them." Karl Friedrich Gauss
- "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its 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
- "Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl." Mike Adams
- "Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system." Nigel Calder
- "The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment." Celia Green
- "When gravity calls, something falls" J.L.W. Brooks
- "The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers." Lewis Thomas
- "Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art." Will Durant
- "Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them." Abraham Flexner
- "The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know why or how." Albert Einstein
- "Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more." George Bernard Shaw
- "There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science." Anton Chekhov
- "There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science." Louis Pasteur
- "But 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 difference between the amoeba and Einstein is that, although both make use of the method of trial and error elimination, the amoeba dislikes erring while Einstein is intrigued by it." Karl Raimund Popper
- "It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher." Charles Peirce
- "I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician; he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale." Marie Curie
- "The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself." Gerard Piel
- "An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer." Max Planck
- "Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money." Leon Lederman
- "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious—the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science." Albert Einstein
- "My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, "So? Did you learn anything today?" But not my mother. "Izzy," she would say, "did you ask a good question today?" That difference — asking good questions — made me become a scientist." Isidor Isaac Rabi
- "We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always a chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity." Marie Curie
- "We learn geology the morning after the earthquake." Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible." Albert Einstein
- "The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems." G.W. Allport
- "There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact." Mark Twain
- "I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess." Walt Whitman
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Sunday, February 21, 2016
111 Motivational Science Quotes!
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