Science Quotes

"Every discovery begins with a question."

"Science reveals the magnificent order in creation."

"The only way to invent in aeronautics is by actual work."

"The modern flying machine is one of the greatest achievements of scientific progress."

"The observation of these radio pulses has opened up an entirely new window on the universe."

"Discovery often comes not from expecting something, but from careful observation of the unexpected."

"I believe that wonder and rigorous thinking are not opposites but partners."

"People think they want to hear about the miracles of science. What they really want is to know how to do things better."

"The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose, and that's what makes astronomy so thrilling."

"I measured the invisible and found it to be more real than anyone imagined."

"The most important experiments are those that challenge our most cherished beliefs."

"The universe speaks in the language of mathematics, but it speaks to all who listen."

"The idea of 'thinking machines' may seem strange, but it reflects our growing understanding of the mind itself."

"The digital computer is in principle an universal computing machine."

"We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge."

"If a thing is physical, anything that it does can be simulated by a universal computing machine."

"A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if we are to hope to build a complete description."

"Let us say that we are not interested in the machinery of thought, but in the product of thought."

"The ability of machines to learn suggests that learning itself might be more mechanical than we assume."

"The brain is not fundamentally different from a machine, merely more complex."

"Symbiosis is the driving force of evolution, not competition alone."

"The greatest evolutionary innovation was not the development of sex, but the development of cells themselves."

"The origin of mitochondria through endosymbiosis was Earth's most revolutionary event."

"Bacteria are not primitive; they are the most successful organisms on Earth."

"Evolution is far more creative than we ever imagined in our wildest dreams."

"The cell itself is a cooperative venture, a community of different organisms working together."

"The microworld is where true evolution happens; the rest is elaboration."

"Autopoiesis – self-making – is the hallmark of all living systems."

"Symbiogenesis explains the major transitions in evolution better than any other theory."

"Platelets, mitochondria, chloroplasts – all former bacteria now integrated into our cells."