Science Quotes And Sayings

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“The whole history of physics proves that a new discovery is quite likely lurking at the next decimal place.”
– F.K. Richtmeyer

“But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.”
– Francis Darwin

“Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.”
– François Rabelais

“In physics, you don’t have to go around making trouble for yourself – nature does it for you.”
– Frank Wilczek

“The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time.  Pull it and the whole thing unravels.”
– Fred Alan Wolfe

“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.”
– Fritjof Capra

“The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.  Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.”
– G.W. Allport

“Science is always wrong.  It never solves a problem without creating ten more.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts.”
– George Santayana

“It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms.  A physicist is an atom’s way of knowing about atoms.”
– George Wald

“The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself.”
– Gerard Piel

“A scientist can discover a new star, but he cannot make one. He would have to ask an engineer to do that.”   
– Gordon L. Glegg

“There is no gravity.  The earth sucks.”
– Graffito

“It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.”
– H.L. Mencken

“Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual.  It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.”
– H.L. Mencken

“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.”
– H.L. Mencken

“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.” 
– Henri Poincare

“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.”
– Henri Poincaré

“Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate.”
– Henry J. Tillman

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

“In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.”
– Hugh Walpole

“In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.”
– Immanuel Kant

“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…”
– Isaac Asimov

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

“When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.”    
– Isaac Asimov

“My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to.  Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, “So?  Did you learn anything today?”  But not my mother.  “Izzy,” she would say, “did you ask a good question today?”  That difference – asking good questions – made me become a scientist.”
– Isidor Isaac Rabi

“When gravity calls, something falls.”
– J.L.W. Brooks

“The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.”
– J.T. Fraser

“The microwave oven is the consolation prize in our struggle to understand physics.”
– Jason Love

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