Science Quotes

"Being a scientist is a state of mind, not a profession!" - Krishna Kumari Challa (KKC)

Expressing mere opinions without providing evidence might cause severe harm to people. So either put up (evidence) or shut up - KKC.

(Sorry if that sounds arrogant but people are causing divisions, violence and even deaths while dealing with black magic, superstitions etc. with irresponsible opinion expressions)

Karl Marx had said in his Das Kapital: "There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.”

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

Quality science is good for the whole world; its nationality of origin only matters to politicians and jingoistic idiots.

"Truth and facts resist simplicity." - John Green

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 is the belief in the ignorance of experts" - Richard Feynman

“Uncertainty is the engine of science, and a sign of knowledgeable ...

"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, though creationists usually don't manage that same level of utility."

 “Investigate before castigate,” and “trust but verify.”

"Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong."
(Allan Sandage, cosmologist)

"Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality"

“[Einstein’s theory of relativity is] a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king… its exponents are brilliant men, but they are meta-physicists rather than scientists.”

“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”

“Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused by cranks and charlatans—and misunderstood by people struggling in good faith with difficult ideas—than quantum mechanics.” 
(Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself, 2016)