100+ Scientists & Science Quotes

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

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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

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There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

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I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark

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

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If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?

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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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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

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

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Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

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You can observe a lot just by watching.

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Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

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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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Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

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Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

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Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

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You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

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The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

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Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

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It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

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If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

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I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

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

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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

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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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Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.

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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

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rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.

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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

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

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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

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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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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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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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