Science Quotes

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

Art is I; Science is we.
?Claude Bernard

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

A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour,
it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot
stove for a minute, it's longer than any
hour. That is relativity.
?Albert Einstein

Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic.
?Arthur C. Clarke

Science without religion is lame,
religion without science is blind.
?Albert Einstein

If it can't be expressed in figures,
it is not science; it is opinion
?Lazarus Long

Somewhere, something incredible
is waiting to be known.
?Carl Sagan

The most beautiful thing we can
experience is the mysterious. It is
the source of all true art and science.
?Albert Einstein

We must, however, acknowledge,
as it seems to me, that man with
all his noble qualities... still bears
in his bodily frame the
indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
?Charles Darwin

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

The scientific theory I like the best is that
the rings of Saturn are composed
entirely of lost airline baggage.
?Max Born

A theory is something nobody believes,
except the person who made it. An experiment
is something everybody believes,
except the person who made it.
?Albert Einstein

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

The great tragedy of science --
the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis
by an ugly fact.
?Thomas Huxley

I would rather live in a world where
my life is surrounded by mystery
than live in a world so small that my
mind could comprehend it.
?Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

In science the credit goes to the man
who convinces the world, not to the
man to whom the idea first occurs
?Francis Darwin

The most exciting phrase to hear
in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I
found it!) but 'That's funny....'
?Isaac Asimov

There is one thing even more vital to
science than intelligent methods;
and that is, the sincere desire to find
out the truth, whatever it may be.
?Charles Sanders Pierce

Science is the great antidote to the
poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
?Adam Smith

Art is meant to upset people,
science reassures them.
?Georges Brague