
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.Ernest Rutherford
These 54 quotes on science come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.Ernest Rutherford

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.Ernest Rutherford

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.James Joyce

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.Ralph Ellison

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.Jiddu Krishnamurti

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.André Gide

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.Charles Darwin
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.Sigmund Freud
Think how hard physics would be if particles could think.Murray Gell-Mann
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.Immanuel Kant
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.Frank Herbert
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.A. A. Milne
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.André Gide
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.William Ward
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.Ralph Waldo Emerson
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.Thomas Carlyle
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.Pema Chodron
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyse you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.Bernice Reagon
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.Gautama Buddha
Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.Tehyi Hsieh
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.Bernice Reagon
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might…Albert Einstein
The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you…William James
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.Helen Keller
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.John Dewey
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.Galileo Galilei
We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.Margaret Wheatley
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge has three degrees — opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third…Plotinus
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.W. Clement Stone
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.Jules Poincare
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.Neil deGrasse Tyson
We are all connected; to each other, biologically; to the earth, chemically; to the rest of the universe, atomically.Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.Bill Nye
When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world's first…Alexander Fleming
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you never can fly.Ivan Pavlov
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
If you double the number of experiments you do per year, you're going to double your inventiveness.Jeff Bezos
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.Audrey Hepburn
The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my…C. V. Raman
We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can…C. V. Raman
A scientific institution has to be grown with great care like a tree — its growth in terms of quality and achievement can only be accelerated to a…Homi Bhabha
The development of a nation is intimately linked with the understanding and application of science and technology by its people.Vikram Sarabhai
The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.Jagadish Chandra Bose
The poet is intimate with truth, while the scientist approaches it awkwardly.Jagadish Chandra Bose
I dedicate today this Institute — not merely a laboratory but a temple.Jagadish Chandra Bose

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.Albert Einstein

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

The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things.Miyamoto Musashi

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.Rosalind Franklin

Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.Bruce Lee

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.Blaise Pascal

If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.Isaac Newton