Science Quotes

"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

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us."

Carl Sagan

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

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."

Henri Poincaré

"There is grandeur in this view of life... from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."

Charles Darwin

"Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all."

Charles Babbage

"Without data, you're just another person with an opinion."

W. Edwards Deming

"Statistics is the grammar of science."

Karl Pearson

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."

Arthur Conan Doyle

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

Arthur Conan Doyle

"Scientists study the world as it is; engineers create the world that has never been."

Theodore von Kármán

"Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man."

Thomas Tredgold

"Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master."

Christian Lous Lange

"An experiment is a question which science poses to nature, and a measurement is the recording of nature's answer."

Max Planck

"I am among those who think that science has great beauty."

Marie Curie

"Science, my boy, 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 of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

Arthur C. Clarke

"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."

Isaac Asimov

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

H. G. Wells

"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is."

Douglas Adams

"Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe."

Ron Garan

"We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth."

Bill Anders

"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand."

Neil Armstrong

"Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit."

Frank Borman

"Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is."

Valentina Tereshkova