We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.-Carl Sagan
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.-Louis Pasteur
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.-Edward Teller
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
Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.-Wernher von Braun
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. – Arthur M. Schlesinger
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.-Bruce Feirstein
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.-Edwin Powell Hubble
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.-Muriel Rukeyser
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.-Robert A. Heinlein
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.-Isaac Asimov
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.-Carl Sagan
What is research but a blind date with knowledge?-Will Harvey
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow’s speed.-Howard Nemerov
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion. – Stephen Hawking
The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.-Thomas Huxley
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.-John Dewey
Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.-Frederick Sanger
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
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.-Mary Kay Ash
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question ‘How?’ but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question ‘Why?’-Erwin Chargaff
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.-Walter Gilbert
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.-Immanuel Kant
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.-Lewis Thomas
Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life. – Nathan Deal
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 has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.-Jean Rostand
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.-Paul Valery
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…’-Isaac Asimov
In science, ‘fact’ can only mean ‘confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.’ I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.-Stephen Jay Gould
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.-Max Planck
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.-Irving Langmuir
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.-George Bernard Shaw
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.-Alan Perlis
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. – Thomas Huxley
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.-Robert Green Ingersoll
Art is I; science is we.-Claude Bernard
From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It’s not a miracle; we just decided to go.-Jim Lovell
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.-Stephen Hawking
Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.-Elon Musk
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.-Arthur C. Clarke
Science does not know its debt to imagination.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.-Neil Armstrong
We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That’s just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.-Mae Jemison
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. – Konrad Lorenz
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.-Marcus Aurelius
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.-Albert Einstein
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leave the atom alone.-E. Y. Harburg
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.-Jane Howard
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.-Edward Teller
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.-Stephen Jay Gould
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.-James D. Watson
Touch a scientist and you touch a child. – Ray Bradbury
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.-Adam Smith
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.-Edmund Hillary
Science is nothing but perception.-Plato