Science Quotes

"We have seen Venus to be very like the moon, and the moon very like Venus, both having illuminated parts on the side toward the sun."

"I have discovered four new planets."

"Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness."

"In my studies of astronomy and philosophy, I have always found that facts, unaided by rhetoric, persuade men."

"In my observations of the heavens, I found that the eye deceives, but the telescope does not."

"Authority is not a substitute for the facts."

"Do not believe anything unless you can prove it through observation and reason."

"In science, as in life, there are few certainties but many probabilities."

"The knowledge of natural things can only be obtained by experiment and observation."

"The value of the observations lies in their precision and accuracy."

"The desire to understand the world is the first virtue of a scientist."

"I have decided to set aside all prejudices and follow only the voice of reason and experiment."

"Precision in measurement is the soul of accurate science."

"Observation tempered by reason is the path to all human knowledge."

"The scientists only accept an objection when proved by facts."

"Radium has something to do with the relativity theory."

"If you are a scientist you believe that it is good to try to find out how the world works."

"In science, there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting."

"The chemical elements do not differ in their essence, but only in their modifications of the universal matter."

"Science is the greatest instrument for the advancement of human civilization."

"The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA."

"The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason."

"On the other hand, if we do not permit scientific truths to be questioned, we betray the very spirit of science."

"To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances, could have been formed by natural selection, seems absurd."

"Extinction has only separated groups; it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this earth were suddenly to reappear, not a single additional link would thereby be supplied."

"The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, is certainly one of degree and not of kind."

"The very lowest form of life is the monad."

"It is instructive to observe the manner in which naturalists have been led to their conclusions."

"The chief cause of every classification must be genealogy."

"Every structure and instinct every shade and habit, every extinct form and embryonic condition tells one story."