Science Quotes

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world."

Albert Einstein

"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions."

Claude Lévi-Strauss

"The great tragedy of Science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."

Thomas Huxley

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

Richard Feynman

"Mathematics is the queen of the sciences."

Carl Friedrich Gauss

"Mathematics is the music of reason."

James Joseph Sylvester

"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."

Carl Friedrich Gauss

"I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore... whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

Isaac Newton

"Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."

Isaac Newton

"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do."

Donald Knuth

"The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up."

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Thomas Edison

"Science is a cemetery of dead ideas."

Miguel de Unamuno

"Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination."

Bertrand Russell

"Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house."

Henri Poincaré

"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."

Henri Poincaré

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."

Galileo Galilei

"Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine."

Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution."

Theodosius Dobzhansky

"DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created."

Bill Gates

"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied."

Alfred Nobel

"Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed."

Antoine Lavoisier

"Every aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry."

Linus Pauling

"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas."

Linus Pauling

"Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity."

Hippocrates