150+ Mind-Blowing Science Quotes from Einstein & More

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

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

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...

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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

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

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

Problem is (follow me closely here, the science is pretty complicated), if I cut a hole in the Hab, the air won't stay inside anymore.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

The human spirit must prevail over technology.

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.

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.

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

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

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.