science quotes

Science Quotes

21st Century Skills Science Follow-Up

“Science is simply common sense at its best,

rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.”

– Thomas Henry Huxley, (1825-95) English Biologist.

“There is something fascinating about science.”

--Mark Twain

“In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.” 

~Hugh Walpole 

“There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the

impact of a new idea.”

-- Percy Williams Bridgman, U. S. Physicist, Nobel Prize, 1946

Good math teachers are like…

• Hallmark cards: cares enough to give the best.

• Coke: is the real thing. • General Electric: has a lot to

give. • Tide: gets the stain out that

others leave behind. • VO-5 hair spray: holds

through all kinds of weather.

 “A good teacher is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.”

-- Godwin, Gail (b. 1937) American writer

"Polar coordinates

aren't justarctic

fashions."

"Do not worry too much about your difficulties in science,

I can assure you that mine are still greater."

-- Albert Einstein

Math Quotes

"The essence of science is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.”

"Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a

computer.”

"The notion of infinity is our greatest friend;

it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind."

-- James Pierpont

“Good teachers are usually a little crazy.” -- Rooney, Andy (b. 1919) American journalist

"We have to reinvent the wheel every once in a while, not because we need a lot of wheels;

but because we need a lot of inventors." -- Bruce Joyce

“Men love wonder, and that is the seed of science.”

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Decimals have a point."

Math Quotes

"An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages."

-- de Fontenelle

“Black holes are where the creator divided by zero.”

-- Steven Wright

“Science is common sense at its best.”

--Thomas Huxley

Good science teachers are like…

• Ivory soap: is 100% pure. • Cheerios: makes you feel

groovy. • Frosted Flakes: makes you

feel gr-r-r-reat. • Sears: has everything. • Master Charge: is good for

emergencies.

"Imagination is more important than

knowledge."

-- Albert Einstein

“Observation always involves theory.”

--Edwin Hubble

”Great scientists are supreme artists."

-- Martin H. Fisher

“There is no adequate defense, except stupidity,

against the impact of a new idea.”

-- Percy Williams Bridgman, U. S. Physicist, Nobel Prize, 1946

“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right

questions.” 

-- Claude Lévi-Strauss, Le Cru et le cuit, 1964

If it's green or wriggles, it's biology.If it stinks, it's chemistry.

If it doesn't work, it's physics.

~Handy Guide to Science 

"Well done is better than well

said."

-- Ben Franklin

"Teaching is the royal road to learning." -- Jassamyn West

"We only think when

confronted with a

problem.”

-- John Dewey

"I was x years old in the year x^2.” -- Augustus De Morgan

(when asked about his age)

"I do not teach,

I relate.” -- Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

“Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope & the

telescope.”

-- Theodore Roszak, 1972

"The more you know,

the less sure you are.”

-- Voltaire

"The most important questions in life are,for the most part,

really only problems of probability."

-- Pierre Simon de La Place

\"I hear and I forget.

I see and I remember.

I do and I understand."

-- Chinese Proverb

”Science is not a spectator sport!"