100+ Scientists & Science Quotes

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

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

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Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.

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God does not play dice with the universe.

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

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Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

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

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

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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 flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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