I’m a big fan of APJ Abdul Kalam quotes. For instance, he has said an ultimate thing about the power of dreams based on which one can do scientific research and make a difference. He has said, “You have to dream before your dreams can come true.” This quote explains the power of imagination in science.

Here’s a list of such astonishing quotes by the world’s great scientists, few of which are Nobel Prize winner for their outstanding achievement in the field of science. Their words come from their experiences and hence hold a great value for humankind as the scientists and their inventions play a vital role in our daily life, isn’t it?

These 50 science quotes give us a glimpse about how the scientists think. Their wisdom is expressed through these quotes. This collection of quotes is the combination of quotes from the the current era scientists as well as the past era scientists.

Science Quotes

1. Whenever human beings find themselves alone, as a natural reaction, they start looking for company. Whenever they are in trouble, they look for someone to help them. Whenever they reach an impasse, they look to someone to show them the way out. – APJ Abdul Kalam

2. Everything is theoretically impossible until it is done. – Robert A. Heinlein

3. Imagination is more important than knowledge. – Albert Einstein

4. Gravity explains the motions of the planets but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion. – Isaac Newton

5. Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. – Galileo

6. However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up. – Stephen Hawking

7. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. – Nikola Tesla

8. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. – Thomas Edison

9. Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. – Louis Pasteur

10. An American monkey after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men. – Charles Darwin

11. It’s true for many of our senses but maybe more so for touch and pain, we experience it but we take it for granted, you know, in terms of… mechanistically. – David Julius

12. In science many times it’s the things that we take for granted that are of high interest. – Ardem Patapoutian

13. We’ve been warning against climate change for about 50 years or so. – Klaus Hasselmann

14. The only sad thing is there aren’t more hours in the day! – Guido W. Imbens

15. I like to talk about my work, that always calms me down. – Joshua D. Angrist

16. Fundamental science is crucial. It’s crucial for understanding everything, and will not go too much towards, only in applied science, but it’s important that applied science and fundamental science go together. – Giorgio Parisi

17. Weather forecasting was more of an art, rather than science. – Syukuro Manabe

18. What it takes to be creative is freedom. – Benjamin List

19. I’m one of those people, there’s many like me, who think we’ve just scratched the surface on that kind of way of thinking. – David W.C. MacMillan

20. We’re all on a learning curve. – Michael Houghton

21. Try and find something that you have a passion for. – Charles M. Rice

22. I became the poet laureate of hepatitis. – Harvey J. Alter

23. I see being a scientist as being a puzzle solver. – Andrea Ghez

24. I used to think Nobel Laureates were other people. – Roger Penrose

25. One day I was playing with the spectrometer and boy, did I get the full 15 kilovolts! – Reinhard Genzel

26. Embrace your interests, your passions, and really give it your all! – Jennifer A. Doudna

27. My stability is my science. – Emmanuelle Charpentier

28. I am the master of my failure. If I never fail how will I ever learn. – C.V. Raman

29. My success will not depend on what A or B thinks of me. My success will be what I make of my work. – Homi J Bhabha

30. 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

31. I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated. – James D. Watson

32. Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it is consistent with the laws of nature. – Michael Faraday

33. For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. – Nicolaus Copernicus

34. One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. – Sir Alexander Fleming

35. Learning never exhausts the mind. – Leonardo da Vinci

36. The intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction. – Jacque Fresco

37. The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. – Edward Teller

38. It’s not that we use technology, we live technology. – Godfrey Reggio

39. Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known. – Carl Sagan

40. Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think. – Albert Einstein

41. Not everything that’s cool is science, but everything in science is cool. – Phil Plait

42. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding. – Brain Greene

43. Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. – Carl Sagan

44. Science is simply common sense at its best. – Thomas Huxley

45. Science is part of everyone’s everyday life. – Bill Nye

46. Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it. – Willard Van Orman Quine

47. If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. – Albert Einstein

48. There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. – Isaac Asimon

49. ‘Impossible’ is not a scientific term. – Vanna Bonta

50. The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe it. – Neil deGrasse Tyson