Science Quotes

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions

The great architect of the universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

Scientific progress is measured not by the answers we have found, but by the questions we are courageous enough to ask

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances

To do science is not just to discover but also to be forever ready to discover again, to never let certainty become a cage for curiosity

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure Nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you don’t actually know

Nature reveals her secrets once to the one who approaches her with genuine awe

The universe doesn’t care what you believe. The wonderful thing about science is that it works whether you believe in it or not

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance—the idea that anything is possible

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions.

Science is the poetry of reality.

The great tragedy of Science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual

Nature uses as little as possible of anything

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

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.

Science is the attempt to understand the world, not to explain the unexplained away with stories, but to accept what is and uncover the patterns beneath.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality

There are no facts, only interpretations

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

In science there are no shortcuts to truth.

We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

We have to remember that what we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit

Somewhere, on the edge of the known, our ignorance blossoms into possibility

Wonder is the seed of knowledge.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.

The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Theories crumble, but good observations never fade

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

The reward of the young scientist is the emotional thrill of being the first person in the history of the world to see something or understand something

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

The great thing about science is, the errors get corrected.

The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty; a scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth

Science is nothing but perception

Science gives us the power to question even those things we take for granted; it lets us doubt, so that we can understand

If you want to find out anything from the theoretical physics point of view, you better make damn sure you understand quantum mechanics

The plural of anecdote is not data.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

The Book of Nature is written in the language of mathematics

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

Every discovery contains an irrational element, or a creative intuition

Science is the great engine of innovation, the fuel that keeps the modern world in motion.

Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.

In science, there are only solutions; the next question will soon be asked.

What I cannot create, I do not understand

The beauty of a physical law lies in the precision with which it applies under the most diverse circumstances

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature

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

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge

The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man