Science Quotes

You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.

Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.

As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science, without at the same time improving the science itself; neither can we, on the other hand, improve a science without improving the language or nomenclature which belongs to it.

A scale is only in balance for a brief second. Inevitably the pendulum swings. It’s impossible to maintain.

You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.

Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.

I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.