Science, the systematic study of the natural and physical world through observation and experimentation, is an essential part of human progress. It is a never-ending attempt to understand the nature of reality.
One aspect of science, which also includes the arts and humanities, is research. Research may be undertaken by scientists who seek to solve specific problems or questions that are important for society. The types of analysis include experimental research, exploratory research; theoretical research; and qualitative research.
In general, there are three different levels at which researchers work: pre-qualifying questions that are determined to have little or no value; answering questions with existing theories through experimentation; and developing new ideas based on qualitative data such as interviews or observations.
Here are some of the most inspiring quotes from various scientists in history to learn a great lesson.
37 Science Quotes From The Worlds Greatest Scientists
1. “Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.” ― Adam Smith
2. “All outstanding work, in art as well as in science, results from immense zeal applied to a great idea.” ― Santiago Ramón y Cajal
3. “In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.” ― Sir William Osler
4. “Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.” ― A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
5. “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
6. “Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.” ― Wernher von Braun
7. “The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.” ― Carl Sagan
8. “I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” ― Albert Einstein
9. “It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.” ― Georg C. Lichtenberg
10. “The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions.” ― Claude Levi-Strauss
11. “Every brilliant experiment, like every great work of art, starts with an act of imagination.” ― Jonah Lehrer
12. “Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.” ― Albert Szent-Györgyi
13. “Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” ― Oscar Wilde
14. “Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.” ― Carl Sagan
15. “Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.” ― Rosalind Franklin
16. “The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
17. “The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.” ― Thomas Berger
18. “You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.” ― Galileo
19. “Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.” ― Dan Brown
20. “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” ― Albert Einstein
21. “Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.” ― Victor Stenger
22. “The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”– Neil deGrasse Tyson
23. “There is no law except the law that there is no law.” ― John Archibald Wheeler
24. “The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.” ― Edward Teller
25. “Our virtues and our failures are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.” ― Nikola Tesla
26. “In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.” ― Thomas Huxley
27. “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” ― Albert Einstein
28. “Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. “Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” ― Carl Sagan
30. “Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
31. “What you learn from a life in science is the vastness of our ignorance.” ― David Eagleman
32. “If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off… no matter what they say.” ― Barbara McClintock
33. “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” – Issac Newton
34. “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” ― Immanuel Kant
35. “If you want to have good ideas, you must have many ideas.” ― Linus Pauling
36. “The reward of the young scientist is the emotional thrill of being the first person in the history of the world to see something or to understand something. Nothing can compare with that experience.” ― Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
37. “Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.” ― Rita Levi-Montalcini
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