“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”Create visual
Science
Quotes about science — ideas, advice and perspectives to get inspired.
130 quotes“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”Create visual
“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.”Create visual
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...”Create visual
“The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees.”Create visual
“I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.”Create visual
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”Create visual
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”Create visual
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”Create visual
“That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.”Create visual
“I am never afraid of what I know.”Create visual
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”Create visual
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”Create visual
“The survival of the fittest.”Create visual
“I have seen the dark universe yawning, where the black planets roll without aim, without knowledge, without meaning.”Create visual
“If we can conquer space, we can conquer the deserts of the world.”Create visual
“Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.”Create visual
“The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”Create visual
“The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.”Create visual
“Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.”Create visual
“The constant effort towards population... increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.”Create visual
“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”Create visual
“Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate.”Create visual
“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.”Create visual