Science Quotations

Adam Smith

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and...

Adam Smith

Science is the great antidote to the poison of...

Alan Perlis

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to...

Albert Einstein

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right;...

Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human...

Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent...

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a...

Alfred Hitchcock

We seem to have a compulsion these days to...

Alvin Toffler

The next major explosion is going to be when...

Archimedes

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum...

Arthur C. Clarke

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something...

Arthur M. Schlesinger

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition...

Ashley Montagu

The doctor has been taught to be interested not...

Bruce Feirstein

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only...

Carl Jung

We are born at a given moment, in a...

Charles Kettering

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but...

Charles Pierce

There is one thing even more vital to science...

Dan Quayle

For NASA, space is still a high...

Dave Parnas

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not...

Edmund Hillary

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used...

Edward R. Murrow

A satellite has no...

Edward Teller

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes....

Edward Teller

The science of today is the technology of...

Erwin Chargaff

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?"...

I see nothing in space as promising as the...

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study...

Science never solves a problem without creating ten...

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances...

I believe in general in a dualism between facts...

He is so old that his blood type was...

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth...

You cannot feed the hungry on...

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount...

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed...

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it...

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the...

The saddest aspect of life right now is that...

There is a single light of science, and to...

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an...

What is a scientist after all? It is a...

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion,...

I got the bill for my surgery. Now I...

Jane Howard

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform...

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision...

Science has made us gods even before we are...

Every great advance in science has issued from a...

John D. Barrow

There was no "before" the beginning of our universe,...

John von Neumann

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic...

Konrad Lorenz

It is a good morning exercise for a research...

Leon Battista Alberti

When I investigate and when I discover that the...

Lewis Thomas

The cloning of humans is on most of the...

Lewis Thomas

The great secret of doctors, known only to their...

Lewis Thomas

The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its...

Linus Pauling

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you...

Louis D. Brandeis

There are no shortcuts in...

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so...

Marcus Aurelius

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as...

Margaret Mead

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look...

Marie Curie

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is...

Mark Haddon

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm...

Mark Russell

The scientific theory I like best is that the...

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which...

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the...

Mary Kay Ash

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly,...

Max Planck

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its...

Max Planck

Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work...

Niels Bohr

An expert is a man who has made all...

Niels Bohr

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough...

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I hate facts. I always say the chief end...

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a...

Paul Valery

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery,...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science does not know its debt to...

Ray Bradbury

The best scientist is open to experience and begins...

Ray Bradbury

Touch a scientist and you touch a...

Rene Descartes

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which...

Richard Adams

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in...

Robert Quillen

If we wish to make a new world we...

Russell Baker

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major...

Sam Ervin

Polygraph tests are 20th-century...

Stephen Jay Gould

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting...

Stephen Jay Gould

In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such...

Steve Nash

Anytime you play a finalist it's going to be...

Thomas Huxley

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful...

Thomas Huxley

Science is simply common sense at its best, that...

Thomas Huxley

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of...

Tom Hanks

From now on we live in a world where...

Wernher von Braun

It will free man from the remaining chains, the...

Wernher von Braun

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know...

Wernher von Braun

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is...

Wilhelm Reich

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos...

Wilson Mizner

When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism;...