Science Quotes And Sayings

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“Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.”
– Jean Rostand

“It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.”
– John Desmond Bernal

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”
– John Dewey

“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

“Physics is imagination in a straight jacket.”
– John Moffat

“In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes’ bath and Newton’s apple, the [3.6 million year old] fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.”
– John Reader

“The exploration and ultimate colonization of the solar system is the only future worthy of truly great nations at this time in history. The Soviets, who cannot even feed themselves, seem to understand this.”
– John S. Powers

“I have had my results for a long time:  but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.”
– Karl Friedrich Gauss

“Darwin has interested us in the history of nature’s technology.”
– Karl Marx

“Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.”
– Karl Marx

“I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts.  Namely, the physical universe.”
– Ken Jenkins

“DNA was the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.”
– Kenneth Boulding

“Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.”
– Konrad (Zacharias) Lorenz

“If you stacked all the US currency together, you could probably reach the moon, but I bet the Apollo program was still more economical.”   
– Larry Baum

“The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program.”  
– Larry Niven

“When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.”   
– Leo Burnett

“Physics isn’t a religion.  If it were, we’d have a much easier time raising money.”
– Leon Lederman

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.”    
– Les Brown

“The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA.  Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.”
– Lewis Thomas

“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 

“There is something fascinating about science.  One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”
– Mark Twain

“Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.”
– Marston Bates

“Facts are not science – as the dictionary is not literature.”
– Martin H. Fischer

“Life preys upon life.  This is biology’s most fundamental fact.”
– Martin H. Fischer

“Not fact-finding, but attainment to philosophy is the aim of science.”
– Martin H. Fischer

“The great men of science are supreme artists.”
– Martin H. Fischer

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“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

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
– Max Planck

“An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.”
– Max Planck

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