“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”
Science
Quotes about science — ideas, advice and perspectives to get inspired.
“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.”
“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.”
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...”
“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.”
“I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.”
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
“That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.”
“I am never afraid of what I know.”
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
“The survival of the fittest.”
“I have seen the dark universe yawning, where the black planets roll without aim, without knowledge, without meaning.”
“If we can conquer space, we can conquer the deserts of the world.”
“Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.”
“The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
“The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.”
“Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.”
“The constant effort towards population... increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.”
“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
“Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate.”
“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.”