Post by Admin on Sept 4, 2023 2:09:07 GMT
Thought I'd add some of my favorite quotes by Scientists. I'll add more soon. Add any you have please.
--- “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
Albert Einstein
--- I believe there are no questions that science can’t answer about a physical universe.
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
--- Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Adam Smith
Adam Smith
--- An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Neils Bohr
Neils Bohr
--- Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that’s precise, predictive and reliable – a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.
Brian Greene
Brian Greene
--- I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
David Eagleman
David Eagleman
--- Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
Ashley Montague
Ashley Montague
--- The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
Irving Langmuir
Irving Langmuir
--- Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.
Craig Ferguson
Craig Ferguson
--- The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.
Alfred Harker
Alfred Harker
--- Hypotheses, like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear.
Henry Edward Armstrong
Henry Edward Armstrong
--- To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
Isaac Newton
--- What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Isaac Newton
--- What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
--- Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
--- Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
--- “If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
--- Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
--- In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a ‘failed experiment.’ Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
Adam Savage
Adam Savage
-- Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don’t know what’s there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.
Charles H. Townes
Charles H. Townes
--- Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions.
Brian Schmidt
Brian Schmidt
--- You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the
world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing
whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's
doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference
between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Richard Feynman
--- But I don’t see myself as a woman in science. I see myself as a scientist.
Donna Strickland
Donna Strickland
--- Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
--- Chemistry is not torture but instead the amazing and beautiful science of stuff, and if you give it a chance, it will not only blow your mind but also give you a deeper understanding of your world.
Hank Green
Hank Green
--- Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
Jules Verne
Jules Verne
--- True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
--- Studying physics, mathematics, and chemistry is worshipping God.
Fethullah Gulen
Fethullah Gulen
--- Even if you think the Big Bang created the stars, don’t you wonder who sent the flowers?
Robert Breault
Robert Breault
--- To my disappointment, not many young people seem to be interested in science, especially chemistry.
Akira Suzuki
Akira Suzuki
--- Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
Charles Darwin
--- To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Sybil, 1845
--- Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
--- Science is magic that works.
Kurt Vonnegut
--- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
not the most intelligent that survives.
It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
Charles Darwin
--- There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
--- Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It’s posing questions and coming up with a method. It’s delving in.
Sally Ride
Science is not finished until it is communicated.
Mark Walport
Sally Ride
Science is not finished until it is communicated.
Mark Walport
--- Every man who receives a liberal education now counts chemistry among the most indispensable objects of his studies.
Antoine Francois Fourcroy
Antoine Francois Fourcroy
Bernard Bailey
--- There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Isaac Asimov
--- Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.
Frederick Sanger
--- Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that’s part of the game.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
--- We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
--- Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
--- Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
Photo of Richard Fenyman, Nobel Prize winning Physicist