Science Quotes

The Cosmos extends, for all practical purposes, forever. After a brief sedentary hiatus, we are resuming our ancient nomadic way of life. Our remote descendants, safely arrayed on many worlds throughout the Solar System and beyond, will be unified by their common heritage, by their regard for their home planet, and by the knowledge that, whatever other life may be, the only humans in all the Universe come from Earth. They will gaze up and strain to find the blue dot in their skies. They will love it no less for its obscurity and fragility. They will marvel at how vulnerable the repository of all our potential once was, how perilous our infancy, how humble our beginnings, how many rivers we had to cross before we found our way.

~ Carl Sagan

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

What goes up must come down.

~ Isaac Newton

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.

~ Niels Bohr

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer art is everything else.

~ Donald Ervin Knuth

Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.

~ Derek Landy

In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection. Indeed, they will be receding faster than the speed of light, so detection will be impossible. Future civilizations will discover science and all its laws, and never know about other galaxies or the cosmic background radiation. They will inevitably come to the wrong conclusion about the universe......We live in a special time, the only time, where we can observationally verify that we live in a special time.

~ Lawrence M. Krauss

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

~ Charles Darwin

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.

~ René Descartes

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

~ Bill Bryson

For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.

~ Gordon Korman

If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?

~ Stephen Hawking

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence.

~ Immanuel Kant

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

~ Paul Farmer

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

~ Erwin Schrödinger

The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to feel a certain amount of sympathy with them, and to perform various services for them.

~ Charles Darwin

My dream, is to dream, a dream.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.

~ Serbian Proverb

I'm dark matter. The universe inside of me is full of something, and science can't even shine a light on it. I feel like I'm mostly made of mysteries.

~ Maria Dahvana Headley

Science teaches to think but love teaches to smile.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Om (AUM) the Divine song is at the same time Symmetry, Supersymmetry, broken Symmetry, and the unbroken Symmetry of Nature.

~ Amit Ray

I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don’t.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

~ Wassily Kandinsky

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

~ Albert Einstein

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.

~ Yann Martel

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

~ J. Robert Oppenheimer

It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

~ Criss Jami

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

~ Santiago Ramón Y Cajal

The universe is so unhuman, that is, it goes its way with so little thought of man. He is but an incident, not an end. We must adjust our notions to the discovery that things are not shaped to him, but that he is shaped to them. The air was not made for his lungs, but he has lungs because there is air; the light was not created for his eye, but he has eyes because there is light. All the forces of nature are going their own way; man avails himself of them, or catches a ride as best he can. If he keeps his seat, he prospers; if he misses his hold and falls, he is crushed.

~ John Burroughs

Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope.

~ Theodore Roszak

Sadly, my socks are like snowflakes, no two are exactly alike.

~ Graham Parke

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

~ Charles Darwin

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

~ Ann Druyan

The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually clogging up the civil, commercial, and criminal courts in all areas of the Galaxy, and especially, where possible, the more corrupt ones, this.The previous sentence makes sense. That is not the problem.This is:Change.Read it through again and you'll get it.

~ Douglas Adams

...The Presidential election has given me less anxiety than I myself could have imagined. The next administration will be a troublesome one, to whomsoever it falls, and our John has been too much worn to contend much longer with conflicting factions. I call him our John, because, when you were at the Cul de sac at Paris, he appeared to me to be almost as much your boy as

~ John Adams

It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in photons and electrons. Can you imagine anything so silly?' They'll have a good laugh, because by then there will be newer better fantasies... And meanwhile, you feel the way the boat moves? That's the sea. That's real. You smell the salt in the air? You feel the sunlight on your skin? That's all real. Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

~ Michael Crichton

DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.

~ Richard Dawkins