100+ Scientists & Science 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.

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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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...

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

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

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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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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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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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

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

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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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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.

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[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

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

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

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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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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.

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

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

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

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Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

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

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

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

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

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

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