8,157 Quotes About Science

He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.

A science that hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

Stop telling God what to do with his dice.

One planet, one experiment.

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.