Famous science quotations

   The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but That's funny...  Nice Word by Isaac Asimov

   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.  Meaningful Quotation by Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis, 1905

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.  Good Quote by Leon Lederman

   The whole history of physics proves that a new discovery is quite likely lurking at the next decimal place.  Wise Phrase by F.K. Richtmeyer

   Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.  Wise Phrase by Marston Bates

   Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.  Famous Saying by John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty, 1929

   Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.  Nice Word by Bertrand Russell, What I Believe, 1925

   There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.  Meaningful Quotation by Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 1883

   Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.  Good Quote by François Rabelais, Pantagruel, 1572

   There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest.  Wise Phrase by Rudolph Ladenburg

   Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.  Wise Phrase by Martin H. Fischer

   Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.  Famous Saying by Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, 1926

   If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.  Nice Word by Henry J. Tillman

   Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.  Meaningful Quotation by Abraham Flexner, Universities, 1930

   In science it often happens that scientists say, You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken, and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.  Good Quote by Carl Sagan, 1987

   Physics is imagination in a straight jacket.  Wise Phrase by John Moffat

   Science is the record of dead religions.  Wise Phrase by The Oscariana of Oscar Fingall O'Flaherty Will Wilde [1856-1900] for George Bernard Shaw

   In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.  Famous Saying by Frank Wilczek

   Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences, but especially so in physics, in which the results of quantum mechanics and relativity theory have opened up two very different paths for physicists to pursue. They may lead us - to put it in extreme terms - to the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each of us to decide which path to take.  Nice Word by Fritjof Capra, The Turning Point, 1982

   In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.  Meaningful Quotation by Hugh Walpole

   Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.  Good Quote by Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life, 1913

   Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.  Wise Phrase by Jean Rostand

   Science is the topography of ignorance.  Wise Phrase by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Medical Essays, 1883

   The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.  Famous Saying by H.L. Mencken, Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebook, 1956

   The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.  Nice Word by Albert Einstein



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