Science Quotes

“He had literally plummeted from the sky that morning, and yet this was the farthest he had ever fallen.”
― J.B. Ryder, The Forgotten Colony

“Every light creates a shadow. You can not have one without the other.”
― J.M. Miro, Ordinary Monsters

“Even in science," Contemplation said, "faith plays a role. Each experiment done, each step on the path of knowledge, is achieved by striking out into the darkness. You can't know what you will find, or that you will find anything at all. It is faith that drives us - faith in answers that must exist.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man

“Assert the most absurd nonsense, call it a scientific truth, and back it up with strange words which, like potentiality, etc., sound as if they had a meaning but in reality have none, and nine out of every ten men who read your book will believe you. Acquire a remarkable name in one branch of human knowledge, and presto! you are infallible in all. Who can contradict you, if you only wrap up your assertions in specious phrases that not one man in a million attempts to ascertain the real meaning of? We like so much to be saved the trouble of thinking,that it is far easier and more comfortable to be led than to contradict, to fall in quietly with the great flock of sheep that jump blindly after their leader than to remain apart, making one's self ridiculous by foolishly attempting to argue. Real argument, in fact, is very difficult, for several reasons: first, you must understand your subject well, which is hardly likely; secondly your opponent must also understand it well, which is even less likely; thirdly you must listen patiently to his arguments, which is still less likely; and fourthly, he must listen to yours, the least likely of all.”
― Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon and 'Round the Moon

“What makes you think I want to “inspire confidence”? I am not a faith healer, or a politician. The Antigerone exists. It doesn’t depend on confidence for its results, any more than castor oil does. Whether people “believe in it”, as the phrase goes, or don’t “believe in it”, will not have the least effect on its properties. . . .”
― John Wyndham, Trouble with Lichen

“The seeker after knowledge did not seek for himself; he was under a special Commandment: to deliver to all men whatever he might be privileged to learn.”
― John Wyndham, Trouble with Lichen

“It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.”
― Hans Asperger

“It is easy to overlook this thought that life just is. As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want to take constant advantage of all the intoxicating existence we've been endowed with. But what's life to lichen? Yet its impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours - arguably stronger. If i were told that I had to spend decades being a furry growth on a rock in the woods, I believe I would lose the will to go on.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“It isn't easy being an organism. In the whole universe, as far as we know, there is only one place, an inconspicuous outpost of the Milky Way called Earth, that will sustain you, and even it can be pretty grudging.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“I know what I want my dust to say about me.”
― Rob Dunn, Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live

“Using the tools developed by physicists in the last century, biologists in this century are poised to enact their own scientific revolution. Time will tell whether years from now another book will describe how "biologists changed the future." But on thing is for sure---we will not be able to embrace and participate in that future without the discipline, curiosity, questioning, and reasoning that science requires.”
― James Kakalios, The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics: A Math-Free Exploration of the Science that Made Our World

“And then there's Texas. Texas is where I dabble in benevolent anarchy.”
― Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

“As a society, we cannot afford to overlook the nexus between environmental health and reproductive well-being. The future health and vitality of our communities depend on our collective commitment to creating a cleaner, safer environment for everyone, especially those who are most vulnerable.”
― Shivanshu K. Srivastava

“To achieve is:

To do it first,
To do it quick,
To do it big,
To do it different and

To do it best - the pinnacle of human accomplishment.”
― Fola F. Salami

“We mustn't go back to living in caves by compromising all rationality, but at the same time, we mustn't practice rationality to such an extreme that we kill the very warmth of the human spirit.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted

“Science is vitiated when it comes into the realm of life, and—as the drab enterprise that it is—aspires to live off the golden tree of life”
― José Ortega y Gasset, Psychological Investigations

“The richest 1 per cent of the world's population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the people who make up the poorest half of humanity.”
― Greta Thunberg, The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

“True knowledge is to be aware of one's ignorance.”
― Rudolf Virchow

“After all, there would have been transfinite numbers even if everyone had been wiped out by the Black Death before Cantor discovered them.”
― Thomas Nagel, What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

“Studying Natural Sciences was one of the hardest things I've ever done, and without doubt one of the most rewarding.”
― Ben Miller, It's Not Rocket Science: Discover the Surprisingly Simple Ideas Behind the Most Exciting Bits of Science

“Where did those? How were they made? What were they made for? In reply to these questions theology is garrulous, but science is dumb.”
― William Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man

“Math is linked in the popular mind with phobia and anxiety. You’d think we were discussing spiders.”
― Steven Strogatz

“It doesn't work. Nothing works. If I don't talk, I'm sulking. If I talk I say something wrong. I've finished the workbook--The teacher said you must've helped me--and i know the reader by heart.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeline Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeline Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“I thought about putting the telly on but to be honest I liked sitting in the conversation. To observe it. Because the truth is I never know what to say, so sometimes it’s just easier for me to stay silent.”
― Jack Stevens

“Religious thinkers have done their best to twist science and philosophy to back up their law.”
― Andrew Mango, Atatürk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey

“Let’s be courageous in the matter of women. Let’s forget fear. Let’s adorn their minds with serious knowledge and science. Let’s teach chastity in a healthy, scientific way. Let’s give top priority to giving women honour and dignity.”
― Andrew Mango, Atatürk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey

“A nation must be strong in spirit, knowledge, science and morals. Military strength comes last … Today it is not enough to have arms in hand in order to take one’s place in the world as a human being.”
― Andrew Mango, Atatürk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey

“Facts and fiction both are dreams. Facts are what fiction dreams to be, while fiction is the dream that facts have conquered. And the beauty of it all is that, at any given moment, both dreams are alive, just in different shape and strength.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Facts and fiction both are dreams. Facts are what fiction dreams to be, while fiction is the dream that facts have conquered.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One