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.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.Isaac Asimov
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.Will Durant
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.Carl Sagan
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If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.Richard Feynman
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Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.Brian Greene
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.Arthur C. Clarke
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We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.Douglas Adams
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.Carl Sagan
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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.Albert Einstein
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.Thomas A. Edison
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It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.Georg C. Lichtenberg
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If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.Ernest Rutherford
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An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.Max Planck
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Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.Jacob Bronowski
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Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.J. B. S. Haldane
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A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.George Wald
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The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.Subrahmanyan Chadrasekhar
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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.Paul Dirac
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Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.Richard Feynman
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There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.Louis Pasteur
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.Will Durant
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The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.Thomas H. Huxley
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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.Sir William Bragg
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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.Steven Weinberg
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Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.Wilhelm Reich
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Science is the poetry of reality.Richard Dawkins
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Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.Seth Lloyd
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All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.Albert Einstein
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The real and legitimate goal of the sciences is the endowment of human life with new commodities.Francis Bacon
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Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense.Michio Kaku