Science Quotes
The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man.
Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
Richard FeynmanRichard Feynman The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
David HumeDavid Hume Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
Galileo GalileiGalileo Galilei To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.
Charles BabbageCharles Babbage I have experimental evidence that time travel is not possible.
Stephen HawkingStephen Hawking We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
Louis PasteurLouis Pasteur 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 PlanckMax Planck I’ve never owned a telescope, but it’s something I’m thinking of looking into.
George CarlinGeorge Carlin Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
DemocritusDemocritus You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
Elon MuskElon Musk As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.
Bill CosbyBill Cosby Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors.
Max PlanckMax Planck My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins