100+ Scientists & Science Quotes

I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime

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Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

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For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?

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Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

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Problem is (follow me closely here, the science is pretty complicated), if I cut a hole in the Hab, the air won't stay inside anymore.

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Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.

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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

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A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter

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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.

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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

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The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.

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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

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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.

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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

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I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

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If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

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There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

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Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

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As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we.

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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.

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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

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John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe[Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal]

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A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

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So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

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One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.

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Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

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