Science Quotes

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Jacob Bronowski

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Bertolt Brecht

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

Werner von Braun

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Sir Humphrey Davy

If I could remember the names of all these particles I'd be a botanist.

Albert Einstein

The science of fools with long memories.

James Robinson Planche

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

Peter B. Medawar

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

Peter B. Medawar

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

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.

Sir Humphrey Davy

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.

Sir Humphrey Davy

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

Thomas Carlyle

What we might call, by way of Eminence, the Dismal Science.

Thomas Campbell

O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair?

Thomas Campbell