Science Quotes

Any opposition not based on rationalism or science or experience will one day or other, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.

It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.

Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.

...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Habit is a powerful means of advancement, and the habit of eternal vigilance and diligence, rarely fails to bring a substantial reward.

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.

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

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

In conclusion, I submit that, far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.

Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.

Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that propel life.

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

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

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.

I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth.

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

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.

What goes up must come down.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.

Science is the process of thinking God's thoughts after Him.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin to trace the development of ideas that it becomes fascinating.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

The Sun Stone, the famous Aztec calendar, is unquestionably a perfect summary of science, philosophy, art and religion.

I spend money on war because it is necessary, but to spend it on science, that is pleasant to me. This object costs no tears; it is an honour to humanity

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

Tomorrow may be fair, however stormy the sky of today.

When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.

Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

Let Nature be your teacher