100+ Scientists & Science Quotes

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

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

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

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

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Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.

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

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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.

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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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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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It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct.

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I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don’t.

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There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.

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The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.

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My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

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Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.

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God is an ever-receding pocket of? scientific ignorance.

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The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

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

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

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

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

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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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For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

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Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

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