Science Quotes

"If you fail, never give up because F.A.I.L. means 'First Attempt In Learning'."

"If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right."

M. S. Swaminathan

"Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers."

Shakuntala Devi

"Eureka! (I have found it!)"

Archimedes

"Number rules the universe."

Pythagoras

"The duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself an enemy of all that he reads."

Ibn al-Haytham

"The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes."

Avicenna

"My work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge."

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

"If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost too."

Carl Linnaeus

"The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world."

Alexander von Humboldt

"Study nature, not books."

Louis Agassiz

"Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science."

James Clerk Maxwell

"If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment."

Ernest Rutherford

"God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world."

Paul Dirac

"Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries."

Freeman Dyson

"We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom."

E. O. Wilson

"Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity."

Stephen Jay Gould

"Science is a very human form of knowledge."

Jacob Bronowski

"There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper."

Francis Crick

"In nature nothing exists alone."

Rachel Carson

"Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved."

Jane Goodall

"No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced."

David Attenborough

"Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease."

Hippocrates

"Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."

William Lawrence Bragg