Science quotes
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.― Albert Einstein
I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe. ~Ken Jenkins
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stone, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house, and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.--Jules Henri Poincaré
It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.--GEORG C. LICHTENBERG
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. - -Albert Einstein
Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.--Albert Einstein
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.― Isaac Asimov
No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer. ~Thomas Browne
Science is an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery.Sir Cyril Herman Hinshelwood
Life cannot have had 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
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.--Carl Sagan
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.― Albert Einstein
There may be 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. - Nicolaus Copernicus
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.--Henri Poincare
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
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. ~Mark Twain
God created two acts of folly. First, He created the Universe in a Big Bang. Second, He was negligent enough to leave behind evidence for this act, in the form of microwave radiation.
Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one.
There is no law except the law that there is no law. - John Archibald Wheeler
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers--Lewis Thomas