150+ Mind-Blowing Science Quotes from Einstein & More

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

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.

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

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

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

Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.

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

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.

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

John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe[Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal]

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

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.