50 Inspiring Science Quotes

“Science is not only a discipline of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.” – Stephen Hawking

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it.” – Freeman Dyson

“Science is the poetry of reality.” – Richard Dawkins

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.” – Carl Sagan

“Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back.” – Bill Nye

“Science is not a thing, it is a process.” – Robert M. Pirsig

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.” – Adam Smith

“Science is not a collection of facts; it is a way of understanding the world.” – Unknown

“Science is not about certainty, it is about finding the best possible explanation for what we observe.” – Lawrence Krauss

“Science is not about control, it is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it.” – Freeman Dyson

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” – Carl Sagan

“Everything is theoretically impossible until it is done.” – Robert A. Heinlein

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” – Isaac Asimov

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” – Albert Einstein

“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.” – Hippocrates

“Science is magic that works.” – Kurt Vonnegut

“Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.” – Thomas Edison

“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” – Galileo Galilei

“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.” – Erwin Schrödinger

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” – Nikola Tesla

“I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” – Isaac Newton

“It is strange that only extraordinary man-made the discoveries twitch later appear so easy and simple.” – George C. Lichtenberg

“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.” – William Blake

“The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.” – Thomas Berger

“The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.” – Edward Teller

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

“Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.” – Elon Musk

“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.” – Edwin Hubble

“Science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics.” – Steve Martin

“Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.” – Jacob Bronowski

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” – Neils Bohr

“I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here.” – Arthur C. Clarke

“Life cannot have a random beginning… the trouble is that there are about 2000 enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all in a random trial is only one part in 10^40,000 an outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup.” – Fred Hoyle

“There is no law except the law that there is no law.” – John Archibald Wheeler

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” – Immanuel Kant

“What I love about science is that as you learn, you don’t really get answers. You just get better questions.” – John Green

“We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.” – Richard Dawkins

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

“Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.” – Stephen Hawking

“Science is a way of life. It is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that’s precise, predictive, and reliable – a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.” – Brian Greene

“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 more.” – Carl Jung

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.” – Stephen Hawking

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” – Will Durant

“There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.” – Richard Dawkins

“Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.” – J. B. S. Haldane

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.” – Adam Smith

“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.” – Max Planck

“Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.” – Lisa Randall

“Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.” – Carl Sagan

“Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.” – Stephen Jay Gould

“Science is not only a discipline of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.” – Stephen Hawking

“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

“There are many babblers, wholly ignorant of mathematics, who dare to condemn my hypothesis, upon the authority of some part of the Bible twisted to suit their purpose. I value them not and scorn their unfounded judgment.” – Nicholas Copernicus

“Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes, yet they are usually left unchronicled.” – William Ramsay

“Actually, everything that can be known as a number; for it is impossible to grasp anything with the mind or to recognize it without this.” – Philolaus

“If you thought that science was certain ? well, that is just an error on your part.” – Richard Feynman

“Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.” – Donald E. Knuth

“That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.” – Bill Watterson

“Exploration is what you do when you don’t know what you’re doing. That’s what scientists do every day. If a scientist already knew what they were doing, they wouldn’t be discovering anything, because they already knew what they were doing.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

“A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.” – Anne McCaffrey

“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.” – Karl Marx