Science Quotes
Quotes about Science
539 quotes
- “No one, in the world's whole history, ever attempted to substantiate a truth by a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance o...” — Robert G. Ingersoll
- “Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous a...” — Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales Of Music And The Brain
- “Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of indus...” — Miguel De Unamuno, Tragic Sense Of Life
- “Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon th...” — Immanuel Kant, Critique Of Practical Reason
- “I have been in my bed for five weeks, oppressed with weakness and other infirmities from which my age, seventy four year...” — Galileo Galilei, Lettere Di Galileo Galilei
- “The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them — the sense that we have a monopol...” — Carl Sagan, The Demon-haunted World: Science As A Candle In The Dark
- “The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientist...” — W.h. Auden
- “It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted f...” — Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three
- “The phrase 'the fossil record' sounds impressive and authoritative. As used by some persons it becomes, as intended, int...” — Gareth J. Nelson
- “The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capab...” — Richard Dawkins, Unweaving The Rainbow: Science, Delusion And The Appetite For Wonder
- “The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very appealing. ...” — Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives Of Human Cadavers
- “There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of scie...” — Leonard Susskind, The Black Hole War: My Battle With Stephen Hawking To Make The World Safe For Quantum Mechanics
- “We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial cr...” — Stephen Jay Gould
- “Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33...” — Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
- “The way we think may be completely different, but you and I are an ancient, archetypal couple, the original man and woma...” — Banana Yoshimoto
- “You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the worl...” — Edgar D. Mitchell
- “I went to school in drag, in art school and my day was completely different because everybody thought I was a chick. You...” — Gerard Way
- “...Man has a tyrant, ignorance. I voted for the demise of that particular tyrant. That particular tyrant has engendered ...” — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
- “I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments...” — Lewis Thomas, Fragile Species
- “Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly—yet counted for nothing beside ...” — Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life Of The Genius Ramanujan
- “Genetics might be adequate for explaining microevolution, but microevolutionary changes in gene frequency were not seen ...” — Scott F. Gilbert
- “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some ...” — H.p. Lovecraft
- “The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually cloggi...” — Douglas Adams, So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish
- “1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he s...” — Arthur C. Clarke
- “Much later, when I discussed the problem with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was t...” — George Gamow
- “If Darwinists are opposed to mentioning scientific problems with their view, you would think they would be even more opp...” — Jonathan Wells, The Politically Incorrect Guide To Darwinism And Intelligent Design
- “The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the...” — Neil Degrasse Tyson
- “Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses fr...” — Haruki Murakami, 1q84
- “The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the...” — Carl Sagan, Cosmos
- “... respecto al origen del mundo, si es que lo tuvo, no nos queda más remedio que aceptar que nunca sabremos cómo ocurri...” — Fernando Vallejo, La Puta De Babilonia
- “There's no obvious reason to assume that the very same rare properties that allow for our existence would also provide t...” — Guillermo González, The Privileged Planet: How Our Place In The Cosmos Is Designed For Discovery
- “In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave...” — John Gribbin, In Search Of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics And Reality
- “If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less tha...” — Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence For Evolution
- “Birth after birth the line unchanging runs,And fathers live transmitted in their sons;Each passing year beholds the unva...” — Erasmus Darwin, The Temple Of Nature
- “The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our...” — Karl Popper
- “Anyone who thinks cryptozoology is the study of the impossible has never really taken a very good look at the so-called ...” — Seanan Mcguire, Discount Armageddon
- “The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as i...” — Carl Sagan, Cosmos
- “How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts?Was the eye ...” — Isaac Newton, Opticks
- “I remember discussions with Bohr which went through many hours till very late at night and ended almost in despair; and ...” — Werner Heisenberg
- “Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names...” — Karl Jaspers, Man In The Modern Age
- “In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How shou...” — Jane Goodall
- “I am using the word theory as a scientist means it: a set of ideas so well established by observations and physical mode...” — Philip Plait, Death From The Skies!: These Are The Ways The World Will End...
- “The well-being of a neuron depends on its ability to communicate with other neurons. Studies have shown that electrical ...” — Lisa Genova, Still Alice
- “The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of ...” — Thomas Henry Huxley, Agnosticism And Christianity And Other Essays
- “In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutat...” — Michael J. Behe, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge To Evolution
- “I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the ...” — Michael Crichton
- “The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science w...” — Rachel Carson
- “It’s hard to build models of inflation that don't lead to a multiverse. It’s not impossible, so I think there’s still ce...” — Alan Guth
- “Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this world...” — Rachel Carson
- “It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the ...” — Steven Pinker