The best Quotes by famous Scientists

The best Quotes by famous Scientists

Here you can find the best Quotes by famous scientists, physicists, biologists, chemists, virologists, astronomers and geologists. On thyQuotes you can find great Quotes about Science aswell.

C.S. Lewis

Things never happen the same way twice.

C.S. Lewis in The Chronicles of Narnia

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Carl Sagan

Every Star that you see in the Sky might be a sun to someone.

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Robert Oppenheimer

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist knows it.

Robert Oppenheimer

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Stephen Hawking

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Stephen Hawking

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Niels Bohr

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

Marie Curie

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Marie Curie

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Alexander von Humboldt

Ideas can only be useful when they come to life in many minds.

Alexander von Humboldt

Charles Darwin

I am not the least afraid to die.

Charles Darwin - last words - April 19th 1882

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Richard Feynman

Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!

Richard Feynman

René Descartes

Cogito, ergo sum. I think; therefore I am.

René Descartes

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Albert Einstein

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

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John Wheeler

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

John Wheeler

Erwin Schrödinger

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

Erwin Schrödinger

Werner Heisenberg

The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.

Werner Heisenberg

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Max Planck

Truth never wins, but its enemies cease to exist.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Galileo Galilei

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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Roger Penrose

Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense

Roger Penrose

Charles Kettering

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

Charles Kettering

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799)

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Isaac Newton

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Isaac Newton

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Linus Pauling

The best way to get a good idea is to get lots of ideas.

Linus Pauling

Richard P. Feynman

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard P. Feynman

C. V. Raman

I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.

C. V. Raman

Benoit Mandelbrot

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.

Benoit Mandelbrot

David Bohm

Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.

Daniel Bernoulli

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

Daniel Bernoulli

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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

Robert Oppenheimer

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Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Stephen Hawking

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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Marie Curie

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Nature has to be felt.

Alexander von Humboldt

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Charles Darwin

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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

Richard Feynman

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

René Descartes

I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

Albert Einstein

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The best way to learn something is to have to teach it.

John Wheeler

The present is the only thing that has no end.

Erwin Schrödinger

If we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this?

Werner Heisenberg

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Galileo Galilei

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Sometimes it's the detours which turn out to be the fruitful ideas.

Roger Penrose

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Charles Kettering

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Isaac Newton

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