Science Quotes

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I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

J. B. S. Haldane

The doubter is a true man of science; he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.

Claude Bernard

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

Adam Smith

I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.

Max Born

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

Carl Sagan

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

John Maynard Keynes

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stone, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house, and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

Henri Poincaré

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

Arthur Eddington

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.

C. B. van Niel

Science is an integral part of culture. It’s not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It’s one of the glories of human intellectual tradition.

Stephen Jay Gould

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

Eden Phillpotts

Science is a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

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

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates

Science is the labor and handicraft of the mind.

Francis Bacon

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Thomas Henry Huxley

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.

Carl Sagan

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

Bertrand Russell

Science is simply common sense at its best that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Science helps us before all things in this, that it somewhat lightens the feeling of wonder with which Nature fills us; then, however, as life becomes more and more complex, it creates new facilities for the avoidance of what would do us harm and the promotion of what will do us good.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.

Marie Curie

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Carl Sagan

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature.  They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry. 

John Dewey

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Sir William Lawrence Bragg

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it is tied to everything else in the universe.

John Muir

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Hugh Walpole

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Thomas Hobbes

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

Edwin Hubble

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