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- Nov 07, 2020
Science Quotes
Science taken seriously, and occasionally not.
Most of these quotes come from people genuinely engaged with science, recalling museum trips that sparked early curiosity and admiring mathematics for tackling problems that actually have solutions. For quotes on scientific humor specifically, see Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Speaking for myself, I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the dangers of science fiction, particularly bad science fiction, is that you have these scenes where the characters turn to a blackboard and start explaining how this faster-than-light drive works, or something like that. We never really have those conversations in real life. That's not part of the way we interact as human beings.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be a strong believer that we would eventually colonize the solar system the way it's been done in science fiction many, many times: bases on the moon, Mars colonized, move out to the outer planets, then we go to the next solar system and build a colony there. I don't know now - I'm not as convinced that's the way it's going to pan out.
- Nov 07, 2020
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Nov 07, 2020
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
- Deduction
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- Nov 07, 2020
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.
- Genera
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- Nov 07, 2020