Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old science quotes, science sayings, and science proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.Sir Arthur Eddington
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.Adam Smith
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideasMiguel de Unamuno
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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.Mark Twain
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.William Lawrence Bragg
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.John Dewey
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Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.Jean Rostand
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Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.Henri Poincar
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A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.Max Gluckman
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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.Thomas Henry Huxley
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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.Albert Einstein
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To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.Evelyn Fox Keller
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The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.Robert L. Park
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Science is the topography of ignorance.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.William James
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Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.Franois Rabelais
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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.E. Rutherford
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Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.Albert Einstein
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Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.Stephen Jay Gould
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.Albert Einstein
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In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.Hugh Walpole
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Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.Thomas Henry Huxley
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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.Abraham Flexner
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Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more.George Bernard Shaw
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Reason, Observation, and Experience ; The Holy Trinity of Science.Robert Green Ingersoll
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Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.Henry Louis Mencken
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.Bertrand Russell
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Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.George Santayana