Famous Science Quotes in English with Images

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.

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it.  It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.

In science, ‘fact’ can only mean ‘confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.’ I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

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.

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman’s cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world.  One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

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.

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.

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

Science has proof without any certainty.  Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

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

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.  We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs.

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

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny’

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air.  Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

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.

Nothing shocks me. I’m a scientist.

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

Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather native, and probably wrong.

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life – so I became a scientist.  This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.