8,157 Quotes About Science

Human eyes have not yet reached as far as they can go with a telescope, nor have they seen everything there is to see with a microscope.

Until the medical profession factors in all past and current environmental exposures of their patients, they will remain incompetent in the science of human health.

We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.

Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest. To be this ploughman, to see my labours result in the furtherance of scientific progress, was the height of my ambition, and now the Swedish Academy of Sciences has come, at this harvest, to add the most brilliant of crowns.

There is no greater power than the one others do not believe you possess.

The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scientific and religious genius of the human race are fully utilized.

Out of the ashes of failing health, discovery was born.

I was once fond of saying, "sleep is the third pillar of good health, alongside diet and exercise." I have changed my tune. Sleep is more than a pillar; it is the foundation on which the other two health bastions sit. Take away the bedrock of sleep, or weaken it just a little, and careful eating or physical exercise become less than effective, as we shall see.

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.