8,157 Quotes About Science

And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

But men are funny about their wars, they act as if they own them, and perhaps they do, for I don't think women ever start them.

To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.

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.