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October 27, 2022

The scientific method is a technique for discovering knowledge about the world. To use it, you must make an observation, form a question, test your hypothesis and draw a conclusion. With the help of technological advances, this method has enabled scientists to learn more about our world today than ever before. But it’s not just about gaining information about what exists; science impacts many aspects of our lives.

Whether you’re here to learn more about the world or motivate yourself towards betterment, we have all the inspiration you need. We hope you enjoy these enlightening science quotes from some of the best scientists in history!

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” ― Albert Einstein

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ― Isaac Asimov

“Never memorize something that you can look up.” ― Albert Einstein

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.” ― Stephen Hawking

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” ― Albert Einstein

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” ― 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

“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.” ― Terry Pratchett

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” ― Niels Bohr

“I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here.” ― Arthur C. Clarke

“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

“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”― Dan Brown

“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.” ― Terry Pratchett

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” ― Christopher Hitchens

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” ― Sarah Williams

“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.” ― Albert Einstein

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” ― Charles Darwin

“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” ― Marie Curie

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter” ― John Keats

“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.” ― Carl Sagan

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” ― Isaac Asimov

“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.” ― Douglas Adams

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”― Isaac Newton

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”― Carl Sagan

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Enlightening Science Quotes

Science impacts our lives in numerous ways. Far from just providing the incredible technological advances that we sometimes take for granted, science and technology have also had a much broader cultural impact on our daily lives than most people realize. Let’s take a brief look with these amazing enlightening science quotes at some of the ways science impacts us every day.

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
“I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” — Isaac Newton

“It is strange that only extraordinary man made the discoveries which later appears so easy and simple.” — George C. Lichtenberg
“The most important thing is to never stop questioning.”— Albert Einstein
“There is no law except the law that there is no law.”— John Archibald Wheeler

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”— Carl Sagan
“The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.”— Subramanyam Chandrashekhar
“Falsity in intellectual action is intellectual immorality.”— Thomas Crowder Chamberlain

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that it gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”— Isaac Asimov
“Science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind.”— Albert Einstein

“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson
“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him discover it in himself.”— Galileo Galilei

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”― Marie Curie

“I have seen the further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”— Isaac Newton
“I have seen the further fiction and much more satisfying.”— Stephen Hawking

“Science knows no country because knowledge belongs to humanity and is the torch which illuminates the world.”― Louis Pasteur

“Science is simply the word to describe a method of organizing our curiosity.”— Tim Minchin

“You can be creative in anything — in math, science, engineering, philosophy as much as you can in music or in painting or dance.” ― Ken Robins
“If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off… no matter what they say.” ― Barbara Mcclintock
“The reward of the young scientist is the emotional thrill of being the first person in the history of the world to see something or to understand something. Nothing can compare with that experience.” ― Cecilia Payne
“Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.” ― Rita Levi
“When kids look up to great scientists the way they do musicians, actors [and sports figures], civilization will jump to the next level.” ―Brian Greene
“If you want to have good ideas, you must have many ideas.”― Linus Pauling
“The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.” ― Edward Teller
“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”― John Dewey
“Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.” — Archimedes
“Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.”— Elon Musk
“Do not worry too much about your difficulty in mathematics, I can assure you that mine are still greater.”— Albert Einstein

Science Quotes For Teachers

“The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.” — Richard Dawkins
“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.” — Hippocrates
“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.” — Jules Verne
“The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.” — Paul Halmos
“There’s no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym it’s a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.” — Danica Mckellar
“Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.” — Shakuntala Devi
“Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.” — Rosalind Franklin
“Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.”— Wernher Von Braun
“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.”— Galileo Galilei
“I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”— Albert Einstein
“The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.”— Jules-Henri Poincare
“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.”— Paul Dirac
“I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration, and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.”— Bill Vaughan
“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.” — Erwin Schrodinger
“An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.” — Max Planck
“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions.” — Claude Levi-Strauss
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”— Albert Einstein
“Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.”— Michael Faraday
“Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth-knowing and of what is not knowable.”— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Other Fascinating Quotes About Science

“It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.”— Paul Halmos
“The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.”— H.L Menchen
“The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”— Carl Jung
“In physics, you don’t have to go around making trouble for yourself – nature does it for you.” — Frank Wilczek
“It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.”— Georg C. Lichtenberg
“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”— Richard P. Feynman
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” — Marie Curie
“Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.” — Stephen Hawking
“Science is magic that works.” — Kurt Vonnegut
“What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.” — Isaac Newton
“Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.” — Jacob Bronowski
“Aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.” — Mary Kay Ash
“Genius is seeing what everyone else sees and thinking what no one else has thought.”— Albert Szent

More Science Quotes And Sayings

“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.” — Sir William Lawrence Bragg
“The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.”— Thomas Berger
“On earth, there is nothing great but man; and in man, there is nothing great but mind.”— Sir William Hamilton
“Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes, yet they are usually left unchronicled.” — William Ramsay
“The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” —- Alvin Toffler
“If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about it.” — Niels Bohr
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” — Thomas Edison
“All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.” — Ernest Rutherford

“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. “ — Will Durant
“Everything is theoretically impossible until it is done.” — Robert A. Heinlein