Science Quotes

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious — the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That’s a clear prescription for disaster. - Carl Sagan

Real science is a revision in progress, always. It proceeds in fits and starts of ignorance. - Stuart Firestein ( Ignorance: How it drives science )

Science is not conducted by poll. As Albert Einstein said in response to a 1931 book skeptical of relativity theory entitled 100 Authors against Einstein, “Why 100? If I were wrong, one would have been enough."

Science does not purvey absolute truth, science is a mechanism. It’s a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature, it’s a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match. - Isaac Asimov ( Creativity in science and education )

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge - Carl Sagan

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike — and yet it is the most precious thing we have. - Albert Einstein

All of science is uncertain and subject to revision. The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove. - Freeman Dyson

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions. - Claude Lévi-Strauss,

Science is an inherent contradiction — systematic wonder — applied to the natural world. - Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon

Science is not formal logic — it needs the free play of the mind in as great a degree as any other creative art. It is true that this is a gift which can hardly be taught, but its growth can be encouraged in those who already possess it. - Max Born

The heart of the scientific method is the reduction of perceived phenomena to fundamental, testable principles. The elegance, we can fairly say the beauty, of any particular scientific generalization is measured by its simplicity relative to the number of phenomena it can explain.- E.O. Wilson

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done… - Marie Curie

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

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious — the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. - Einstein

Being a scientist requires having faith in uncertainty, finding pleasure in mystery, and learning to cultivate doubt. There is no surer way to screw up an experiment than to be certain of its outcome. Firestein

If you are going to teach people to make observations, you should show that something wonderful can come from them. I learned then what science was about: it was patience. If you looked, and you watched, and you paid attention, you got a great reward from it — although possibly not every time.

[Science] teaches the value of rational thought as well as the importance of freedom of thought; the positive results that come from doubting that the lessons are all true.

Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation.- Richard Feynman

Science, then, necessitates a certain comfort with being wrong , a tolerance for the fear of failure — perhaps cultivating that capacity is an essential prerequisite not only for science but also for the basic appreciation of science.

Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside its domain value judgments of all kinds remain. 

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Doing science is the ultimate act of rebellion

For women in science it is partly about shattering stereotypes and glass ceilings.

For everybody in science, it is about shattering myths, superstitions, ancient ways of thinking, unproven and baseless beliefs, irrationality and everything else an evolved human mind shouldn't be doing - KKC

Being a scientist is not a profession, it is a state of mind - Krishna Kumari Challa

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In the world of science ....

 ....  well, most of the time!