Science Quotes

when the words not enough to describe how much you love....even you know she/he don't anything for y...

You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative an...

Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some peo...

A scholar knows not to waste time rediscovering information already known.

Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is th...

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired...

Science is most definitely not a priesthood where people stand on a mountain and pass truths down to...

(On the energy radiated by the Sun)It's four hundred million million million million watts. That is ...

I'm comfortable with the unknown -- that's the point of science. There are places out there, billion...

There are three known planets in the PSR B1257 system, which have been named Draugr, Poltergeist and...

The scientific creation story has majesty, power and beauty. and is infused with a powerful message ...

Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.

Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connect...

According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly...

My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was ra...

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...

... things are the way they are in our universe because if they Weren't, we would not be here to not...

Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory....

We all love a good story. We all love a tantalizing mystery. We all love the underdog pressing onwar...

...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in a...

If string theory is right, the microscopic fabric of our universe is a richly intertwined multidimen...

...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notic...

…The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a poi...

Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick bu...

To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, developmen...

There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And ou...

A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of...

A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the tradition...

For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and r...

Einstein, twenty-six years old, only three years away from crude privation, still a patent examiner,...

One day at Fenner's (the university cricket ground at Cambridge), just before the last war, G. H. Ha...

The educated man, habitually, almost without noticing it, sees the present as something that grows o...

Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christiani...

The physical sciences, good and innocent in themselves, had already... begun to be warped, had been ...

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased...

The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't eve...

A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an o...

There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation o...

Birds know, better than humans, not to spoil the nest.

If it takes a little myth and ritual to get us through a night that seems endless, who among us cann...

It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowl...

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored ...

One of the great commandments of science is, "Mistrust arguments from authority." (Scientists, being...

I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything...

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and techno...

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity...

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

Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the u...

Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is ...

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the sol...

But if the Bible is not everywhere literally true, which parts are divinely inspired and which are m...

We are all star stuff.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters to sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sa...

The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies t...

I'm frequently asked, "Do you believe there's extraterrestrial intelligence?" I give the standard ar...

The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to aband...

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever t...

Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following f...

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself

The best way to avoid abuses is for the populace in general to be scientifically literate, to unders...

Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astounding universe, and it is sad to see so m...

Does trying to understand the universe at all betray a lack of humility? I believe it is true that h...

All that we have seen is something of a vast and intricate and lovely universe. There is no particul...

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no s...

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingn...

You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don'...

We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannic...

Observation: I can’t see a thing.Conclusion: Dinosaurs.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my positio...

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

We can't help it. Life looks for life.

How thoroughly the chimps and bonobos have erased the list of purported human distinctions!-self-awa...

The school systems, it seems to me have a attitude of discouragement of asking fundamental questions...

The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ou...

There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who ...

The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be t...

Might it be possible at some future time, when neurophysiology has advanced substantially, to recons...

The dangers that we face are part of the process, now well underway, of the unification of the plane...

The others would then fall silent and she would continue about doped gallium arsenide detectors, or ...

Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.

We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up...

The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And...

No question; language can free us of feeling, or almost. Maybe that's one of its functions - so we c...

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the univ...

Adolf Hitler! Ken, it makes me furious. Forty million people die to defeat that megalomaniac, and he...

At the very moment that humans discovered the scale of the universe and found that their most uncons...

Black holes collect problems faster than they collect matter.

Let's see if I got this right," she would say to herself. "I've taken an inert gas that's in the air...

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious...

We are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our or...

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.

The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus w...

The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immen...

The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclips...

We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be.