Science Quotes And Sayings

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“Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.”
– Miguel De Unamuno

“Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds.  Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.”
– Mike Adams

“Science is the topography of ignorance.”
– Oliver Wendell

“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“Science is the record of dead religions.”
– Oscar Wilde

“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 is the exact opposite.” 
– Paul Dirac

“It’s a good thing the guy in charge of naming galaxies was into chocolate bars and not Chinese food. Otherwise, the Milky Way might have been named Moo Goo Gui Pan, and who wants to have to learn about that ?”    
– Paul Paternoster

“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.”
– Plato

“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Ethics and Science need to shake hands.”
– Richard Clarke Cabot

“There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a ‘hottest part’ implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool.  This is obviously impossible.”
– Richard Davisson

“In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.”
– Robert Brault

“Ah, gravity: thou art a heartless bitch.”
– Robert Cohen

“Reason, Observation, and Experience – the Holy Trinity of Science.”
– Robert G. Ingersoll

“Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.”
– Robert K. Merton

“The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.”
– Robert L. Park

“For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.”
– Robert M. Pirsig

“If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready.  The first one, too, was made out of chaos.”
– Robert Quillen

“There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin:  on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest.”
– Rudolph Ladenburg

“Physics is geometric proof on steroids.”
– S.A. Sachs

“Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved at any moment. And they all believed their ancestors were simplistic and deluded. What are the odds that you are the first generation of humans who will understand reality.”   
– Scott Adams

“Quantum physics makes me so happy—it’s like looking at the universe naked.”
– Sheldon Cooper

“I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.” 
– Sir Isaac Newton

“I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding of a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
– Sir Isaac Newton

“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.” 
– Sir William Bragg

“In Science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurred.”
– Sir William Osler

“My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.”  
– Stephen Hawking

“Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one’s provisional consent.”
– Stephen Jay Gould

“Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics.”
– Steven Molaro

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