38 Science Quotes To Inspire

Science has always been a beacon of curiosity and wonder, pushing the boundaries of human understanding and forging new paths in the pursuit of knowledge. Throughout history, scientists, thinkers, and visionaries have encapsulated the essence of their discoveries and the spirit of inquiry in powerful, thought-provoking quotes. In this post, we've curated a collection of the top 38 science quotes designed to inspire, motivate, and ignite your passion for exploration. Each quote is a testament to the enduring spirit of curiosity that drives scientific progress and the relentless quest for truth. Join us on this journey through words that celebrate the beauty, complexity, and infinite potential of science.

1. “Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.” - Albert Einstein

2. “Look too on this poor planet of ours,Torn by the storms of mysterious powers,Evil contending with good from its birth,Wrenching in battle the heartstrings of earth,—Ah! what infinities circle us here,Strangeness and wonderment swathing the sphere!” - Martin Tupper

3. “A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

4. “It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)” - Ron Rash

5. “Maybe if I had to boil it down to one easy sentence, it would be this: I believe in evolution, and I believe in God. I just haven't worked out the details yet.” - Robin Brande

6. “The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.” - Rachel Carson

7. “The scientific method is nothing more than a system of rules to keep us from lying to each other.” - Ken Norris

8. “From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance” - The Dalai Lama

9. “When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?” - Enrico Bombieri

10. “Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.” - Isaac Newton

11. “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.” - Charles Darwin

12. “So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. But on second thoughts it seems a cop-out, because the same could be said of Father Christmas and tooth fairies. There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?” - Richard Dawkins

13. “The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying kind of insight that only science can provide: to connect what we know about human nature with the rest of our knowledge of how the world works, and to explain the largest number of facts with the smallest number of assumptions.” - Steven Pinker

14. “God is the name we give to the science we don't understand. Science is the name we give to the God we don't understand.” - Steve Maraboli

15. “He who replies to words of doubtdoth put the light of knowledge out.” - William Blake

16. “Scientists study only those aspects of the universe that it is within their gift to study: what is observable; what is measurable and amenable to statistical analysis; and, indeed, what they can afford to study within the means and time available. Science thus emerges as a giant tautology, a "closed system". It can present us with robust answers only because its practitioners take very great care to tailor the questions.” - Colin Tudge

17. “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. Microbiology and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to burn women to death.” - Carl Sagan

18. “يا طير هجت الطائرينا ... و فتنت لب العالمينالله درك ساحرا ... أبطلت كيد الساحريناأظهرت معجزة العلوم... لنا و كنا كافريناإنا لقوم يعشقون... النابغين الباسلينايتسابقون حفاوة ... بالأقربين الأكرمينا” - عمر حمد

19. “Ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the underlying order in the world. Today we still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.” - Stephen Hawking

20. “We must convince each generation that they are transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to doom generations yet unborn. They are not at liberty to erase humanity's past nor dim its future.” - Bernard Lown

21. “Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.” - Kim Stanley Robinson

22. “…Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.” - Dan Brown

23. “Our friend Dirac has a creed; and the main tenet of that creed is: There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet.” - Wolfgang Pauli

24. “If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago. ... This time, however, it is not only based on intuition, but also on experiments of great precision and sophistication, and on a rigorous and consistent mathematical formalism.” - Fritjof Capra

25. “The whole tendency of modern life is towards scientific planning and organisation, central control, standardisation, and specialisation. If this tendency was left to work itself out to its extreme conclusion, one might expect to see the state transformed into an immense social machine, all the individual components of which are strictly limited to the performance of a definite and specialised function, where there could be no freedom because the machine could only work smoothly as long as every wheel and cog performed its task with unvarying regularity. Now the nearer modern society comes to the state of total organisation, the more difficult it is to find any place for spiritual freedom and personal responsibility. Education itself becomes an essential part of the machine, for the mind has to be as completely measured and controlled by the techniques of the scientific expert as the task which it is being trained to perform.” - Christopher Henry Dawson

26. “But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.” - Jane Goodall

27. “Iago’s treatment of Othello conforms to Bacon’s definition of scientific enquiry as putting Nature to the Question. If a member of the audience were to interrupt the play and ask him: "What are you doing? could not Iago answer with a boyish giggle, "Nothing. I’m only trying to find out what Othello is really like"? And we must admit that his experiment is highly successful. By the end of the play he does know the scientific truth about the object to which he has reduced Othello. That is what makes his parting shot, What you know, you know, so terrifying for, by then, Othello has become a thing, incapable of knowing anything.And why shouldn’t Iago do this? After all, he has certainly acquired knowledge. What makes it impossible for us to condemn him self-righteously is that, in our culture, we have all accepted the notion that the right to know is absolute and unlimited. […] We are quite prepared to admit that, while food and sex are good in themselves, an uncontrolled pursuit of either is not, but it is difficult for us to believe that intellectual curiosity is a desire like any other, and to realize that correct knowledge and truth are not identical. To apply a categorical imperative to knowing, so that, instead of asking, "What can I know?" we ask, "What, at this moment, am I meant to know?" – to entertain the possibility that the only knowledge which can be true for us is the knowledge we can live up to – that seems to all of us crazy and almost immoral. But, in that case, who are we to say to Iago – "No, you mustn’t.” - W.H. Auden

28. “Science, my boy, 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

29. “Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.” - Nikola Tesla

30. “One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview—not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it. The really striking thing is that it would not take much effort to establish validity in most of these cases… but people prefer reassurance to research.” - Neil deGrasse Tyson

31. “We must realize that growth is but an adolescent phase of life which stops when physical maturity is reached. If growth continues in the period of maturity it is called obesity or cancer. Prescribing growth as the cure for the energy crisis has all the logic of prescribing increasing quantities of food as a remedy for obesity.” - Albert A. Bartlett

32. “The part of my brain that was responsible for creating the world I lived and moved in and for taking the raw data that came in through my senses and fashioning it into a meaningful universe: that part of my brain was down, and out. And yet despite all of this, I had been alive, and aware, truly aware, in a universe characterized above all by love, consciousness, and reality. There was, for me, simply no arguing this fact. I knew it so completely that I ached.” - Eben Alexander III M.D.

33. “A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub.(from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)” - Isaac Newton

34. “Every advance [in Science] will most likely tell us as much about ourselves as it will about the universe we inhabit. We are all collections of chemicals made in the cataclysmic explosions of stars; we are stardust, or nuclear waste, depending on your perspective.” - Michael Brooks

35. “The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.” - Jane Goodall

36. “The researchers found that nearly every change they made was followed by a temporary uptick in performance, even when it involved simply undoing a previous change. They concluded that the increases in worker productivity were not due to better lighting or better pay or longer breaks per se. They were just temporary improvements caused by a change in routine.” - Hal Herzog

37. “It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.” - Alfred North Whitehead

38. “The technological man is limited as his tools. The man without technologies is limitless.” - Bilal Hussain