8,157 Quotes About Science

Los secretos, como los muertos, no siempre permanecen enterrados.

The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot celebrate them because their deeds are concerned with things, not persons, and are therefore speechless. When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

Man has made remarkable strides in conquering outer space, but how futile have been his efforts in conquering inner space- the space in our hearts and minds of men.

Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

{Comment to Delambre on chemist Antoine Lavoisier's execution during the French Revolution}Only a moment to cut off that head and a hundred years may not give us another like it.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.

If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment.

Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations. And you can choose to appreciate the smallest scraps of experience, the everyday moments, or to value only the grandest, most stirring ones.