1. Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that’s part of the game.

- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

2. Hypotheses, like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear.

- Henry Edward Armstrong

3. Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

- Thomas Huxley

4. Scientists are toms, peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity in human stupidity.

- Arthur Koestler

5. Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

6. The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

- Isaac Asimov

7. No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

- Thomas Browne

8. Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It’s posing questions and coming up with a method. It’s delving in.

- Sally Ride

9. The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

- Ray Bradbury

10. Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

- Louis Pasteur

11. Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

- Albert Einstein

12. Chemistry is not torture but instead the amazing and beautiful science of stuff, and if you give it a chance, it will not only blow your mind but also give you a deeper understanding of your world.

- Hank Green

13. Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

- Wilhelm Reich

14. Chemistry, unlike other sciences, sprang originally from delusions and superstitions, and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and astrology.

- Thomas Thomson

15. Statistics is the grammar of science.

- Karl Pearson

16. It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

- Gabriel Marcel

17. Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

- Edgar Allan Poe

18. Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

- John Dewey

19. Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

- Adam Smith

20. If I were ever abducted by aliens, the first thing I’d ask is whether they came from a planet where people also deny science.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

21. What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on.

- Jacques Yves Cousteau

22. Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

- Nathan Deal

23. Art is I; science is we.

- Claude Bernard

24. Chemical synthesis is uniquely positioned at the heart of chemistry, the central science, and its impact on our lives and society is all pervasive.

- Elias James Corey

25. Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

- Gregory Bateson

26. Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics.

- Elon Musk

27. Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

- Jules Verne

28. I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

- Thomas Edison

29. Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

- Richard P. Feynman

30. I believe there are no questions that science can’t answer about a physical universe.

- Stephen Hawking

31. Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals.

- David Christian

32. The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

- Edward Teller

33. The country which is in advance of the rest of the world in chemistry will also be foremost in wealth and in general prosperity.

- William Ramsay

34. Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

35. Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

- Ernst Mach

36. Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

- Immanuel Kant

37. A person who isn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory doesn’t understand what has been said.

- Neils Bohr

38. Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

- David Hilbert

39. A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always starts with the germ of an idea.

- Evan Esar

40. Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don’t know what’s there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.

- Charles H. Townes

41. The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

- Thomas Huxley

42. There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

- Hippocrates

43. If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

- Arthur C. Clarke

44. Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

45. In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.

- Michio Kaku

46. This means that to entrust to science – or to deliberate control according to scientific principles – more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

- Friedrich August von Hayek

47. The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

- Gertrude Stein

48. Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions.

- Brian Schmidt

49. Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.

- Gary Larson

50. A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.

- Patrick M.S. Blackett

51. Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

- Jean Rostand

52. What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.

- Jean-Francois Lyotard

53. True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

- Miguel de Unamuno

54. Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.

- Craig Ferguson

55. I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

- Marie Curie

56. It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

- Henrik Ibsen

57. Science is the systematic classification of experience.

- George Henry Lewes

58. The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program.

- Larry Niven

59. Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question ‘How?’ but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question ‘Why?’

- Erwin Chargaff

60. Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.

- Jacob Bronkowski

61. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

- Will Durant

62. To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

- Isaac Newton

63. The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

- Gaston Bachelard

64. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

65. If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

- Albert Einstein

66. The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions.

- Claude Levi-Strauss

67. The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

- Nikola Tesla

68. We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

- David Russell

69. Facts are not science – as the dictionary is not literature.

- Martin H. Fischer

70. My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

- Steven Wright

71. Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

- Ashley Montague

72. America’s space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

- Randy Forbes

73. In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.

- Francis Darwin

74. Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more.

- George Bernard Shaw

75. Studying physics, mathematics, and chemistry is worshipping God.

- Fethullah Gulen

76. Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.

- Jonathan Sacks

77. Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.

- Michael Faraday

78. The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

- Robert A. Heinlein

79. If your science experiment needs a statistician, you need to design a better experiment.

- Ernest Rutherford

80. By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

- Galileo Galilei

81. Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

- Isaac Newton

82. Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

- Albert Einstein

83. Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

- Edwin Powell Hubble

84. Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

- Charles Francis Richter

85. In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

- Galileo Galilei

86. All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one’s brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

- Roger Bacon

87. Science and technology are the keys to both our longevity and our demise. Our entire existence on this planet is a double-edged sword.

- Rhys Darby

88. There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

- Isaac Asimov

89. To my disappointment, not many young people seem to be interested in science, especially chemistry.

- Akira Suzuki

90. I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

- David Eagleman

91. No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

- Albert Einstein

92. The heart of science is measurement.

- Erik Brynjolfsson

93. Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.

- Randy Schekman

94. Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

- Erwin Schrodinger

95. Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

- Henry Petroski

96. Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

97. Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that’s precise, predictive and reliable – a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.

- Brian Greene

98. Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

- Evan Esar

99. Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.

- Frederick Sanger

100. Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

- William Osler

101. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

- Arthur C. Clarke

102. There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

- Louis Pasteur

103. Science and technology are going to be the basis for many of the solutions to social problems.

- Frances Arnold

104. Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

105. Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

106. Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

- Thomas Huxley

107. Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

- John Carmack

108. Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

- George Bernard Shaw

109. Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

- Stephen Hawking

110. Every time tiny particles swing through time and space, something is changing.

- Neale Donald Walsch

111. It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

- Albert Einstein

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

- Lord Kelvin

113. Science does not permit exceptions.

- Claude Bernard

114. Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

- Linus Pauling

115. No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

- Jacob Bronowski

116. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

- Carl Sagan

117. Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

- Edward Teller

118. Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.

- Donald Cram

119. Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.

- Wernher von Braun

120. Science is magic that works.

- Kurt Vonnegut

121. Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

- Aldous Huxley

122. Every man who receives a liberal education now counts chemistry among the most indispensable objects of his studies.

- Antoine Francois Fourcroy

123. The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

- Walter Gilbert

124. I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

- Max Born

125. Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

- Linus Pauling

126. A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

- George Bernard Shaw

127. A true scientist would never put away a dirty test tube or falsify a report.

- Virginia L. Mullen

128. Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: ‘Ye must have faith.’

- Max Planck

129. Even if you think the Big Bang created the stars, don’t you wonder who sent the flowers?

- Robert Breault

130. When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they’re not it.

- Bernard Bailey

131. Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

- Francois Rabelais

132. When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

- W. H. Auden

133. Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

- Thomas Huxley

134. Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

- Dan Brown

135. Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

136. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

- Niels Bohr

137. An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

- Neils Bohr

138. The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

- Thomas Huxley

139. But I don’t see myself as a woman in science. I see myself as a scientist.

- Donna Strickland

140. Chemistry was always my weakest subject in high school and college.

- Eric Betzig

141. Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

- John Polanyi

142. If I could remember the names of all these tiny particles, I’d be a botanist.

- Albert Einstein

143. We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

- Carl Sagan

144. The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

- Irving Langmuir

145. Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

- Carl Sagan

146. A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

- Max Planck

147. Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

- Stephen Hawking

148. In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a ‘failed experiment.’ Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

- Adam Savage

149. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

- John F. Kennedy

150. The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.

- Alfred Harker

151. Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

- Earl Wilson

152. Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

- Pope John Paul II

153. The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

- Paul Valery

154. Science is not finished until it is communicated.

- Mark Walport

155. In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

- Horace Walpole

156. All theoretical chemistry is really physics, and all theoretical chemists know it.

- Richard P. Feynman

157. Defintiion of a scientist: a man who understood nothing, until there was nothing left to understand.

- Anthony Zerbe, The Omega Man