Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. – Edwin Powell Hubble, The Nature of Science, 1954
I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe. – Ken Jenkins
No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer. – Thomas Browne
A biophysicist talks physics to the biologists and biology to the physicists, but then he meets another biophysicist, they just discuss women. – Author Unknown
Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. – Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends, 1972
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. – Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 1883
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. – Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. – Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life, 1913
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. – Edward Teller
Science does not know its debt to imagination. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. – William Lawrence Bragg
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. – Jean Rostand
Scientists should always state the opinions upon which their facts are based. – Author Unknown
Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. – Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis, 1905
Every discovery in science is a tacit criticism of things as they are. That is why the wise man is invariably called the fool. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. – Max Gluckman, Politics, Law and Ritual, 1965
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. – Walter Lippmann
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. – Alan Valentine
Physics is imagination in a straight jacket. – John Moffat
