Science - Quotes and Proverbs

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Public sharing is an important part of science.

Richard Dawkins

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Will Durant

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Carl Sagan

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Stephen Hawking

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

Earl Wilson

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

Richard Dawkins

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

Science, the partisan of no country, but the beneficent patroness of all, has liberally opened a temple where all may meet.

Thomas Paine

Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.

Dave Barry

Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter.

Dave Barry

Slow, gradual, cumulative natural selection is the ultimate explanation for our existence.

Richard Dawkins

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

Stephen Hawking

Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

Evan Esar

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

Stephen Hawking

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

Ken Robinson

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

Gaston Bachelard

The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

Stephen Hawking

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard P. Feynman

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.

Carl Sagan

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Albert Einstein

The lepidopterist who records in her notebook that a butterfly is blue may not stop to consider that this is true only because the giant ball of nuclear fuel ninety-three million miles away happens to maintain a surface temperature just right for shedding certain wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation on the Earth; that the eyes of humans have evolved to be sensitive to those wavelengths; that the eye can discriminate slightly different wavelengths as colours; that one of those colours has, by cultural consensus, been defined as 'blue', and so on. Nevertheless, science benefits from the lepidopterist's note that the butterfly is blue.

Bill Bryson
Source: Seeing further: the story of science & the Royal Society

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny".

Frans de Waal

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Leonardo da Vinci

The plural of anecdote is not data.

(unknown author)

The science, or it may be an art, of librarianship is an exercise in applied taxonomy.

Richard Dawkins

The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.

Richard Dawkins

The thinkers of the Enlightenment sought a new understanding of the human condition. The era was a cornucopia of ideas, some of them contradictory, but four themes tie them together: reason, science, humanism, and progress.

Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

The world cannot be understood without numbers. And it cannot be understood with numbers alone.

Hans Rosling
Source: Factfulness

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

Stephen Hawking

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

Stephen Hawking

There is an unfortunate tendency for politicians, especially those of a populist bent, to ignore 'experts', particularly when that expertise counters their poorly substantiated opinions.

Paul Nurse
Source: What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.

Francis Crick

There is no such thing as a stupid question.

(unknown author)

To learn about other people is science, to learn to know yourself is intelligence.

To suppress a fact is to publish a falsehood.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Source: Gaudy Night

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Konrad Lorenz

We are always at the beginning of infinity.

David Deutsch

We are drowning in data but thirsty for knowledge.

Sydney Brenner

We are, I think, in the right road of improvement, for we are making experiments.

Benjamin Franklin

We should always be open-minded, but the only good reason to believe that something exists is if there is real evidence that it does.

Richard Dawkins

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

Sam Harris

What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.

David Attenborough

What seems mysterious can be understood.

Simon Stevin

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

Stephen Hawking