8,157 Quotes About Science

The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.

Science is often misrepresented as ‘the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory.’ Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world.

Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress

These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve.

[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.