Quotes about science
558 quotes from 241 people
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Abolition of ManA mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894Often credited to Oliver Wendell HolmesAstronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
Isaac Asimov1920–1992General sources, Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988)If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
J. B. S. Haldane1892–1964A possibly apocryphal reply to theologians who inquired if there was anything that could be concluded about the Creator from the study of creation; as described in “Homage to Santa Rosalia, or why are there so many kinds of animals” by G. Evelyn HutcAll theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.
