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.

“Science is nothing but perception.”

Plato

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“Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.”

Steve Martin

“I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.”

James Dyson

“Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.”

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.”

John Charles Polanyi

“I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.”

Michael Sheen

“Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”

Aldous Huxley

“Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.”

Stephen Hawking

“I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.”

J. J. Abrams

“The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.”

Elbert Hubbard

“Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.”

John Charles Polanyi

“More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.”

Jeffrey Kluger

“Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.”

Karen Armstrong

“Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.”

Stephen Hawking

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