Science Quotes

Science is the long, slow process of replacing "I believe" with "I know." These quotes explore discovery, curiosity, the scientific method, and the awe that comes from understanding even a small piece of how the universe actually works.

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“Science is nothing but perception.”

— Plato

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“Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.”

— Clyde Tombaugh

“When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.”

— W. H. Auden

“We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.”

— Jared Diamond

“It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.”

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.”

— Marissa Mayer

“A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.”

— Clyde Tombaugh

“Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.”

— Sydney Smith

“Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.”

— John Charles Polanyi

“This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

“It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.”

— Andrew Greeley

“I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.”

— Neil LaBute

“I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.”

— Mayim Bialik

“Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.”

— Bertolt Brecht

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