Science Quotes

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems shorter than a minute. But tell that same man to sit on a hot stove for a minute, it is longer than any hour. That's relativity.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

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

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counter-intuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.

Did you know Photons have mass? I didn't even know they were Catholic.

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?

When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

...a legitimate conflict between science and religion cannot exist... Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

In God we trust; all others must bring data.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.