Quotes
Best Quotes About Science
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
John F. Kennedy
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard Shaw
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Isaac Asimov
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
Robert A. Heinlein
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe.
Stephen Hawking
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Robert A. Heinlein
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A 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
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.
Stephen Hawking
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Adam Smith
Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
Ray Bradbury
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Stephen Hawking
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Albert Einstein
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov
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
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
Isaac Newton
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 is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
W. H. Auden
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
Margaret Mead
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
Science is nothing but perception.
Plato
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl Sagan
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
Galileo Galilei
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
Robert Green Ingersoll
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Carl Sagan
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Albert Einstein
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein
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