Science Quotes – 50 Sayings About Research, Theories And Findings

Are you looking for inspirational science quotes and sayings about research and teaching? Then you've come to the right place! Every new discovery, every groundbreaking theory and every innovative experiment is another building block on the way to understanding the world and the universe.

Science is much more than just collecting data and facts. It is the tireless search for the truth - a journey full of discoveries and innovations. It is curiosity that drives us to find out the unknown, to explore and to decipher the mysteries of life. Last but not least, science also helps us to make informed decisions and convince other people.

In this article, I would like to present you with a collection of the best short pieces of wisdom, aphorisms and quotes about the fascination of science and the importance of research. Let's go!

My please: Keep in mind that many of the quotes about science have been translated into English from other languages. I cannot guarantee that it is the original quote in each case. Therefore, double check them before you share them. If you like and share any of the quotes in the internet, please link this elaborately created collection. Thank you for your support!

The best 50 quotes about science and research

Whether environmental science, economics or social science - every science has the The aim is to gain knowledge (research) and to communicate knowledge (teaching).. The knowledge and findings of years of research by trained scientists and researchers, is ultimately the basis of informed opinion.

With the help of data from science, we humans can constantly evolve and learn to understand ourselves, but also the world, better.

Use the following quotes and sayings to remind yourself of this, always check everythingto be curious and to change your opinions and beliefs if they do not match the scientific facts.

Science quotes 1 - 10

1. "Science is magic that works." (Kurt Vonnegut)
2. "Research is seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought." (Albert Szent-Györgyi)
3. "All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking." (Albert Einstein)
4. "Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul." (Maksim Gorky)
5. "There is no great genius without some touch of madness." (Aristotle)
6. "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)
7. "In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man." (Galileo Galilei)
8. "The prerequisite for knowledge is curiosity." (Jacques-Yves Cousteau)
9. "A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales." (Marie Curie)
10. "Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle." (Arthur Schopenhauer)

Science Quotes 11 - 20

11. "An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." (Niels Bohr)
12. "While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it." (Quintilian)
13. "The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists." (Erwin Schrödinger)
14. "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." (Isaac Newton)
15. "There is no great discoveries and advances, as long as there is an unhappy child on earth." (Albert Einstein)
16. "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)
17. "Both religion and science require a belief in God. For believers, God is in the beginning, and for physicists He is at the end of all considerations." (Max Planck)
18. "Reading a book – for me this is the real exploration of universe." (Marguerite Duras)
19. "Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life." (Marcus Aurelius)
20. "There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance." (Hippocrates)

Tip: Science is always evolving. But there are still scientific disciplines and areas that are largely unexplored. For example, there is uncertainty about the effects of Plastic in the food chain on our health. I'll show you what we humans have found out about this so far in the linked blog post.

Science Quotes 21 - 30

21. "Research is creating new knowledge." (Neil Armstrong)
22. "It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom." (Albert Einstein)
23. "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" (Albert Einstein)
24. "Yes, we could do something about climate change now, but if we then found out in 50 years that all the scientists were wrong after all and there was no global warming at all, then we would have ensured, for no reason at all, that even in the cities you can breathe the air again, that the rivers are no longer toxic, that cars make neither noise nor stink, and that we are no longer dependent on dictators and their oil reserves. That would make us pretty angry." (Marc-Uwe Kling)
25. "The science of today is the technology of tomorrow." (Edward Teller)
26. "Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art." (Otto von Bismarck)
27. "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." (Immanuel Kant)
28. "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." (Isaac Asimov)
29. "Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more." (Albert Einstein)
30. "Science and medicine change with the years, but the smell of a pharmacy is eternal, like matter." (Anton Chekhov)

Science Quotes 31 - 40

31. "Research is the simple pleasure of finding something you didn't know before." (Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker)
32. "The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge." (Thomas Berger)
33. "There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits." (Karl Marx)
34. "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." (Wernher von Braun)
35. "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." (Marie Curie)
36. "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." (Albert Einstein)
37. "Every law of nature that reveals itself to the observer suggests a higher, still unrecognized." (Alexander von Humboldt)
38. "Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not." (Galileo Galilei)
39. "Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge." (Stephen Hawking)
40. "The most beautiful happiness of the thinking man is to have explored the explorable and to revere the inscrutable." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Tip: For example, weather and climate researchers also provide us with valuable insights into whether the Climate change responsible for certain extreme weather is. In the linked article you can find out the most important facts about the connections. I would also like to take this opportunity to introduce you to the Book "Wütendes Wetter" by the physicist Friederike Otto recommend. If you like, get it here*.

Science Quotes 41 - 50

41. "But real science can be far stranger than science fiction, and much more satisfying." (Stephen Hawking)
42. "You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself." (Galileo Galilei)
43. "I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation." (Charles Darwin)
44. "But research strives and struggles, never tiring, for the law, the reason, why and how." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
45. "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it." (Albert Einstein)
46. "It is sometimes a good way of ensuring the solitude you need, of concentrating more or less on whatever study you are immersed in." (Vincent van Gogh)
47. "Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations." (Frederick Sanger)
48. "He who doubts nothing, tests nothing. He who tests nothing discovers nothing. He who discovers nothing is blind and remains blind." (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)
49. "He who understands geometry, understands anything in the world." (Galileo Galilei)
50. "Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth." (Jules Verne)

Can you think of any other sayings about science and research that are not yet to be found here? Then always come up with your ideas in the comments!

Frequently asked questions about science and research

Use the best quotes about science, research and teaching as a source of inspiration!

The journey of science is never over. Because every day raises new questions, brings new insights and new opportunities to expand our understanding of the world. I hope that this collection of quotes has inspired you to look at science with even more curiosity and fascination.

Simply consider the sayings from this list as inspiration and motivation to follow in the footsteps of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Galileo Galilei, Stephen Hawking, Thomas Alva Edison, Isaac Newton or other famous scientists, to learn from their findings or to curiously explore the world and life itself.

Finally, I would like to give you a few further articles that can further strengthen your quest for knowledge, your ability to think rationally and make fact-based judgments:

• The most promising plastic alternatives from research
• Whataboutism - What to do about the distracting argumentation technique?
• Conspiracy theory - what is it actually?

Do you have any questions, suggestions or perhaps even more quotes about or from science? Then I look forward to your comments.

Stay true to the facts,

PS: Psychology is the empirical science of human experience and behavior. One psychological phenomenon, for example, is the so-called cognitive dissonance, by unpleasant emotional statewhich arises as a result of a conflict between one's own thoughts and actions. You can find out more about this in the linked blog post.