100+ Scientists & Science Quotes

100+ Scientists & Science Quotes

131 Quotes

We all need to learn how to think for ourselves as science students and teachers. This is perhaps the most challenging but rewarding aspect of being a scientist as well as the most important.

Below a collection of Quotes from famous scientists about science & Life, hard work by greatest scientists of all time, Albert Einstein Quotes,

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Bertrand Russell

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Ray Bradbury

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Thomas A. Edison

Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.

Bertrand Russell

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know

Bertrand Russell

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

It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.

Bill Bryson

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

Bill Gates

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not...

Bill Gates

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

Bill Watterson

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...

Brian Greene

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.

Carl Sagan

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

Carl Sagan

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.

Carl Sagan

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

Carl Sagan

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

Carl Sagan

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Carl Sagan

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

Carl Sagan

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

Carl Sagan

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

Carl Sagan

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

Carl Sagan

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.

Christopher Hitchens

[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

Christopher Hitchens

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Christopher Hitchens

Science, you don't know, looks like magic.

Christopher Moore

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.

Daniel Kahneman

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

Douglas R. Hofstadter

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

Edwin Hubble

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .

Epicurus

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Frank Herbert

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

Frank Herbert

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

Galileo Galilei

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?

George Orwell

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.

George Washington

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

H.G. Wells

As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.

Hippocrates

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

Isaac Asimov

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Isaac Asimov

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

Isaac Newton

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

Isaac Newton

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