Science Quotes

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything mor…

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its 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.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.