Science Quotes

"Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance."

Hippocrates

"The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error."

Bertolt Brecht

"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more."

"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done."

Robert A. Heinlein

"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

Eden Phillpotts

"Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world."

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

"Science does not know its debt to imagination."

"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."

John Dewey

"Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning."

William Arthur Ward

"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."

Samuel Johnson

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

Ellen Parr

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."

"The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth."

Irving Langmuir

"Science is the systematic classification of experience."

George Henry Lewes

"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."

"Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science."

Claude Bernard

"In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."

Louis Pasteur

"Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly."

Ivan Pavlov

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge."

Daniel J. Boorstin

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

Confucius

"We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power."

Bertrand Russell

"Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers."

"There is nothing so practical as a good theory."

Kurt Lewin

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is."

Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut

"Science is a game – but a game with reality, a game with sharpened knives."

Erwin Schrödinger