300 Best Science Quotes on science and technology

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost. -Russell Baker

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. -John Dewey

For NASA, space is still a high priority. -Dan Quayle

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions – adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. -Stephen Jay Gould

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty. -Adam Smith

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. -George Santayana

Science Quotes-What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on. -Jacques Yves Cousteau

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. -Thomas Huxley

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. -E. B. White

Whenever anyone says, ‘theoretically,’ they really mean, ‘not really.’ -Dave Parnas

There was no ‘before’ the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time. -John D. Barrow

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -Albert Einstein

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world. -Jane Howard

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. -Martin Henry Fischer

Leave the atom alone. -E. Y. Harburg

Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years. -Mike Pence

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.-Donella Meadows

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods. -Leon Battista Alberti

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I’m talking about an organic computer – about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. -Alvin Toffler

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good. -John Charles Polanyi

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be. -Charles Pierce

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief… that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. -Walter Lippmann

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth. -Irving Langmuir

A satellite has no conscience. -Edward R. Murrow

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. -Hugh Walpole

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. -Robert Quillen

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution. -Jay Leno

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued. -Bill Dana

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness. -James D. Watson

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. -Edward Teller

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. -Lewis Thomas

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. -Henry Adams