Science Quotes
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
Niels BohrNiels Bohr We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.
Stephen HawkingStephen Hawking Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
Richard FeynmanRichard Feynman In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
Galileo GalileiGalileo Galilei Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan These are only new devices for putting the weak at the mercy of the strong.
Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
Richard FeynmanRichard Feynman Time travel may be possible, but it is not practical.
Stephen HawkingStephen Hawking Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am. More interesting discoveries than we can imagine will be made, and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.
Linus PaulingLinus Pauling Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science.
Stephen HawkingStephen Hawking The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
Niels BohrNiels Bohr In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
Galileo GalileiGalileo Galilei