You know what the best part about science is? No, not the scientists who seem like walking enigmas to us, regular people. Nope, not even the fact that science betters our lives each and every day. And not even the fact that without it, we’d still probably be living in some version of the Stone Age! Okay, well, these points do sound very solid, but we think it’s the joy of discovery and that Eureka! moment one must feel when discovering something that has never been seen, heard, or used before. What an incredible moment of utter joy it must be! And although most of us aren’t scientists, we can also feel the power of those unbelievable moments by reading these wonderful science quotes that we’ve gathered on this list.
Of course, these quotes about science aren’t only talking about the instances of discovery - they also talk about the importance of science in our lives and the responsibilities that it comes with. You know, one might get a feeling that science is almost like some sort of white magic - a means to make the world better if used properly and honestly. There’s also its counterpart, dark science, and that’s where controversies come. Those, too, are discussed in some of these scientific quotes, which makes for an even more interesting read!
So, the powerful quotes await you just below this text - be sure to check them out thoroughly, as a real scientist would! Once you are done with that, give the most interesting quotes your vote and share these wise words with your friends.
#141
"Leave the atom alone." - E. Y. Harburg
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#142
"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us." - Paul Valery
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#143
"Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations." - Frederick Sanger
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#144
"Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men." - Jean Rostand
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#145
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." - Henry Adams
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#146
"This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects." - Friedrich August von Hayek
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#147
"The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought." - Walter Gilbert
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#148
"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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#149
"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.'" - Max Planck
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#150
"The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship." - Robert A. Heinlein
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#151
"Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within." - Stephen Jay Gould
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#152
"It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics." - Gabriel Marcel
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#153
"Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you." - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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#154
"Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good." - John Polanyi
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#155
"Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves." - Walter Gilbert
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#156
"I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists." - Jacques Yves Cousteau
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#157
"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart." - Walter Lippmann
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#158
"People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people." - Charles Kettering
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#159
"Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution." - Jay Leno
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#160
"I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads." - George Santayana
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