15 Powerful Quotes About Science That Are Thought-Provoking

We can’t do without science. It is what has shaped our sense of reality as we know it and what awaits us in the future. Here are 15 quotes about science that are thought-provoking:

1. We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. – Carl Sagan

2. Actually, everything that can be known has a Number; for it is impossible to grasp anything with the mind or to recognize it without this. – Philolaus

3. Did the genome of our cave-dwelling predecessors contain a set or sets of genes which enable modern man to compose music of infinite complexity and write novels with profound meaning? …It looks as though the early Homo was already provided with the intellectual potential which was in great excess of what was needed to cope with the environment of his time.” – Susumu Ohno

4. Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. – Louis Pasteur

5. Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. – Arthur M. Schlesinger

6. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. – Albert Einstein

7. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. – Albert Einstein

8. Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes; yet they are usually left unchronicled. —William Ramsay

9. Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one. —Victor Scheffer

10. Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. – Thomas Huxley

11. The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.―Neil deGrasse Tyson

12. “Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.” – Robert A. Heinlein.

13. The reward of the young scientist is the emotional thrill of being the first person in the history of the world to see something or to understand something. Nothing can compare with that experience. – Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

14. We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. – Stephen Hawking

15. Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction – in short, between and old today and a new tomorrow.” — Henrich Rohrer

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