“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
Top 20 Most Powerful Quotes From Scientists of All Time
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. "
― Isaac Asimov
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
— Isaac Newton
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"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. "
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."
― Charles Darwin
"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
"It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple."
― Georg C. Lichtenberg
"Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science."
― Edwin Powell Hubble
"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
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
― Carl Sagan
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
― Wernher von Braun
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"Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion."
― Stephen Hawking
"An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer."
― Max Planck
"Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."
― Isaac Newton
"One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away."
― Stephen Hawking
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