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

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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 the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

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A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.

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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

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Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

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Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see.

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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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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.

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If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

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God does not play dice with the universe.

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If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

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

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The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.

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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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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

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A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

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Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.

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No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

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One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter

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

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Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?

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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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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.

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The human spirit must prevail over technology.

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Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

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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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I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

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Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.

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Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

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God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.

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How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean".

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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

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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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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

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