Top 200 Science Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.”

— Nikola Tesla

152. “When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

153. “Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.”

— Edwin Powell Hubble

154. “We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.”

— Carl Sagan

155. “Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.”

— Michael Faraday

156. “My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

157. “Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”

— Terry Pratchett

158. “But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.”

— Richard P. Feynman

159. “Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.”

— Bertrand Russell

160. “The world and the universe are extremely beautiful places, and the more we understand about them the more beautiful they appear.”

— Richard Dawkins

161. “Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.”

— Carl Sagan

162. “Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.”

— Carl Sagan

163. “Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.”

— John Archibald Wheeler

164. “The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

165. “Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.”

— Stephen Hawking

166. “For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

167. “Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

168. “Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.”

— Stephen Hawking

169. “Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

170. “Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.”

— Stephen Hawking

171. “When you make the finding yourself – even if you’re the last person on Earth to see the light – you’ll never forget it.”

— Carl Sagan

172. “There's a way to do it better - find it.”

— Thomas A. Edison

173. “Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.”

— Immanuel Kant

174. “The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

175. “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”

— Thomas A. Edison

176. “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

177. “Look up at the stars, not down at your feet.”

— Stephen Hawking

178. “Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.”

— Elon Musk

179. “The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.”

— Galileo Galilei

180. “I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.”

— Elon Musk

181. “What I cannot create, I do not understand.”

— Richard P. Feynman

182. “All models are wrong, but some are useful.”

— George E. P. Box

183. “If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.”

— Elon Musk

184. “Chance favors the prepared mind.”

— Louis Pasteur

185. “This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

— Neil Armstrong

186. “Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.”

— Thomas A. Edison

187. “A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.”

— Alan Turing

188. “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”

— Carl Sagan

189. “Follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

190. “Science reveals that all life on Earth is one.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

191. “Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.”

— W. Edwards Deming

192. “If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.”

— Isaac Newton

193. “Teach principles not formulas.”

— Richard P. Feynman

194. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

— Albert Einstein

195. “Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.”

— Richard P. Feynman

196. “Creativity is intelligence having fun.”

— Albert Einstein

197. “I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

198. “Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.”

— Isaac Newton

199. “Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.”

— Richard Dawkins

200. “Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.”

— Gene Roddenberry