My Favorite Science Quotes

"All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most precious thing we have".-Albert Einstein

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality".-Albert Einstein

"Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe".-Albert Einstein

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind".-Albert Einstein

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one".-Albert Einstein

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe".-Albert Einstein

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones".-Albert Einstein

"If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet".-Niels Bohr

"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical".-Niels Bohr

"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough".-Niels Bohr

"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image".-Stephen W. Hawking

"My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all".-Stephen W. Hawking

"The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing"?-Stephen W. Hawking

"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special".-Stephen W. Hawking

"That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong"!-Wolfgang Pauli

"To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree".-Charles Darwin

Note: I absolutely love this quote!! Even Darwin himself recognized the complexity of the human body, and this was before the cell was even discovered! If he knew the complexity that we have discovered at this point in time, I am positive he would have renounced his own theory....

"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do".-Galileo Galilei

"I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses".-Johann Kepler

"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring".-Carl Sagan

"I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students".-Carl Sagan

"Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been, there you long to return".-Leonardo da Vinci

"Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science".-Edwin Hubble