Science Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
We vivisect the nightingale To probe the secret of his note.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) American writer, editor
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) British author
I seem to have been only 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 truthlay all undiscovered before me.
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) English mathematician, physicist
The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English poet of a statue of Newton
Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in night; God said “Let Newton be!” and all was light.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet
It did not last the Devil, howling “Ho Let Einstein be!” restored the status quo.
John Squire (1884-1958) British author
I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador — an adventurer.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Austrian psychiatrist
In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist, critic
WhenI am in the company of scientists I feel like a curate who has strayed into a drawing room full of dukes.
W. H. Auden (1907-1973) Anglo-American poet
We are much beholden to Ma-chiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, essayist
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895) English biologist
Science knows only one commandment contribute to science.
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) German dramatist, poet
Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five.
Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) British author
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) French chemist
Science is a collection of successful recipes.
Paul Valery (1871-1945) French poet, essayist
The true worth of a researcher lies in pursuing what he did not seek in his experiment as well as what he sought.
Claude Bernard (1813-1878) French physiologist
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to open her mouth.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British philosopher, mathematician
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) British author
The great tragedy of science — the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895) English biologist
All science is dominated by the idea of approximation.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British philosopher, mathematician
Science is organised knowledge.
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) English philosopher
The world, which took but six days to make, is like to take us six thousand years to make out.
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) English physician, author
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American theoretical physicist
