Quotes about science

In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.

Stephen Hawking

The box jellyfish takes you into an area of what I’d call science fiction. You feel like you’ve been dipped in hot burning oil. You burst into flames.

Diana Nyad

A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science.

Bertrand Russell

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

Abdul Kalam

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.

Stephen Hawking

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

Charles Darwin

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

C. S. Lewis

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

Albert Einstein

Making movies is not rocket science. It’s about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That’s a challenge. When it works, it’s fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn’t work, it’s almost just as fascinating.

Julia Roberts

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Albert Einstein