300 Best Science Quotes on science and technology

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. -Carl Sagan

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? -Carl Sagan

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. -Robert A. Heinlein

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. -Robert A. Heinlein

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today – but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all. -Isaac Asimov

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese. -Abdul Kalam

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. -Stephen Hawking

Science is nothing but perception. -Plato

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared. -Barack Obama

He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble. -Benjamin Disraeli

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. -George Eliot

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion. -Stephen Hawking

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. -Aleister Crowley

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. -William Blake

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong. -Jean-Paul Sartre

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? -Stephen Hawking

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. -Galileo Galilei

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10. -Neil Armstrong

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. -Blaise Pascal

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America. -Richard Dawkins

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment. -Galileo Galilei

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science. -Karl Marx

Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich. -Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance. -Richard Dawkin

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress. -Marcel Proust

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. -Bertrand Russell

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. -William Blake