Science Quotes

"Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness."

Bill Bryson

"Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else."

Dmitri Mendeleev

"He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things."

Vikram Sarabhai

"Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work."

"Success can come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you."

C. V. Raman

"Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics."

G. H. Hardy

"A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems."

Alfréd Rényi

"When the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again."

William Beebe

"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it."

Robert Swan

"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."

William Osler

"Science is not a boy's game, it's not a girl's game. It's everyone's game."

Nichelle Nichols

"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."

Marie Curie

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."

Edsger Dijkstra

"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."

Alan Turing

"The Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves."

"Science is magic that works."

Kurt Vonnegut

"We are all connected; to each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe, atomically."

Neil deGrasse Tyson

"The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment."

Johannes Kepler

"The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons."

Edwin Hubble

"Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions."

Vera Rubin

"All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary."

Sally Ride

"Circling the Earth in the orbital spaceship, I marveled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world! Let us safeguard and enhance this beauty – not destroy it!"

Yuri Gagarin

"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."

Arthur C. Clarke

"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."

Carl Sagan

"What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean."

Isaac Newton