Science Quotes from Famous Scientists about Life and Death

1. “Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” – Carl Sagan

2. “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ― Isaac Asimov

3. “The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.” – Thomas Berger

4. “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” ― Albert Einstein

5. “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” – Immanuel Kant

6. “Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.” – William Blake

7. “Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.” – Stephen Hawking

8. “Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” – Oscar Wilde

9. “It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.” – Georg C. Lichtenberg

10. “Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes; yet they are usually left unchronicled.” – WILLIAM RAMSAY

11. “The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.” – Edward Teller

12. “Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.” – Wernher von Braun

13. “I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” – Isaac Newton

14. “Actually, everything that can be known has a Number; for it is impossible to grasp anything with the mind or to recognize it without this.” – PHILOLAUS

15. “In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”- Galileo Galilei

16. “Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.” – Robert A. Heinlein

17. “The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”– Neil deGrasse Tyson

18. “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”― Marie Curie

19. “By ‘life,’ we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.”
– Aristotle

20. “Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?” – Oliver Heaviside

21. “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” ― Isaac Newton

22. “Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.” – JACOB BRONOWSKI

23. “I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.” ― Richard P. Feynman

24. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: If there is any reaction, both are transformed.” — C.G. Jung

25. “The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.” ― Carl Sagan

26. “The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.” – Albert Einstein

27. “Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.” – Thomas Hobbes

28. “There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally, they credit the wrong person.” ― Bill Bryson

29. “Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.” – John Dewey

30. “We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.” ― Bertrand Russell

31. “Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

32. “Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.” ― Dan Brown

33. “Aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.”- Mary Kay Ash

34. “You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.” – Galileo

35. “I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” – Albert Einstein

36. “Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.” – Carl Sagan

37. “An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.” – MAX PLANCK

38. “Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.” – Edwin Powell Hubble

39. “The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions.” ― Claude Levi-Strauss

40. “Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.” ― Victor Stenger

41. “Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.” – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

42. “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” ― Albert Einstein

43. “Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.” – Adam Smith

44. “There is no law except the law that there is no law.” – John Archibald Wheeler

45. “Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.”- Elon Musk

46. “Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” ― Stephen Hawking

47. “Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.” – J. B. S. HALDANE

48. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” — Albert Einstein

49. “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” ― Thomas A. Edison

50. “In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.” – Thomas Huxley

51. “What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.” – Isaac Newton

52. “When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.” – Arthur C. Clarke

53. “The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.” – Richard Dawkins

54. “Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.” – Archimedes

55. “There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.” – Hippocrates

56. “What I love about science is that as you learn, you don’t really get answers. You just get better questions.” – John Green

57. “All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.” – Leonardo da Vinci

58. “Science is magic that works.” – Kurt Vonnegut

59. “The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.” – Erwin Schrödinger

60. “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.” – Jules Verne

61. “There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.” – Isaac Asimov

62. “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” – Albert Einstein

63. “The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” – Nikola Tesla

64. “Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.” – Donald E. Knuth

65. “Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.” – Robert Sapolsky

66. “Never memorize something that you can look up.” – Albert Einstein

67. “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.” – Stephen Hawking

68. “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.” – Albert Einstein

69. “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.” – Douglas Adams

70. “Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.” – Terry Pratchett

71. “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.” – Stephen Hawking

72. “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” – Niels Bohr

73. “I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here.” – Arthur C. Clarke

74. “In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.” – Terry Pratchett

75. “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” – Christopher Hitchens

 

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