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1. SCIENCE QUOTES
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1. “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found
it!) but 'That's funny...”
― Isaac Asimov
2. “The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
3. “It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without
meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
― Albert Einstein
4. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible
5. “A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and
failure are for him answers above all.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
6. “If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”
― Douglas Adams
7. “Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man
wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not
rivals.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
8. “Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?
Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.”
― Albert Einstein
9. “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
― Albert Einstein
10. “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan
11. “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a
nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our
perspective tends to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
12. “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the
cradle of true art and true science.”
― Albert Einstein, Albert Einstein
13. “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr
14. “Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
― Albert Einstein
15. “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
16. “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may
fear less.”
― Marie Curie
17. “The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.”
― Claude Lévi-Strauss
18. “Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or
geometry...”
― Thomas Jefferson, The Statute Of Virginia For Religious Freedom
19. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
― Albert Einstein
20. “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has
intended us to forgo their use.”
― Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
21. “Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us
go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is

2. greater than ourselves.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
22. “Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
― Stephen Hawking
23. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
― Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin
24. “For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is
unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable
– what then?”
― George Orwell, 1984
25. “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
― Richard P. Feynman
26. “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
― Thomas A. Edison
27. “I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
― Antonio Gramsci, Gramsci's Prison Letters
28. “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
29. “Millions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why?”
― Bernard M. Baruch
30. “Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”
― Carl Sagan
31. “We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to
embrace what is true rather than what feels good.”
― Carl Sagan
32. “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come
in.”
― Isaac Asimov
33. “You can observe a lot just by watching.”
― Yogi Berra
34. “Science, you don't know, looks like magic.”
― Christopher Moore
35. “It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.”
― Albert Einstein
36. “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ”
― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
37. “Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.”
― Edwin Hubble
38. “Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature. ”
― Augustine of Hippo
39. “There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important;
finally they credit the wrong person.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
40. “Do not become someone else just because you are hurt. Be who you are & smile, it may solve, all problems you
have got.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday