Quotes from great scientists. Useful quotes about science
Aphorisms, quotes, phrases about science and technology
When people start thinking like robots, the robots end up performing even worse.
Artemy Lebedev "Kovodstvo"
Teapots are smart these days. Soon dogs will learn to walk.
Andrey Valentinov and Henry Lyon Oldie "Tirman"
The scientific method, despite all its shortcomings, is still the most reliable way understanding of the world.
Declaration of Secular Humanism
The people who invent engines are not extinct yet.
Ayn Rand
Technologies! Now they connect people after being separated in different directions.
Harlan Coben
Modern technology not only depersonalizes people; it guts and turns them inside out, stripping them of the last vestiges of what was once called “private life.”
Harlan Coben
When robots do all the work for a person in the world, they will demand that a person at least not mutter under their arm.
Boris Krieger
Automation in trial will cause the judge to press a button instead of hammering.
Boris Krieger
Buyers do not like automation in trading because, unlike the seller, it is difficult for the machine to fool its head.
Boris Krieger
Scientists will not save the world. They won't find right decisions, they can only point out negative consequences wrong decisions.
Bernard Werber "Empire of Angels"
From time to time, science, along with who knows what discoveries, confirms at the level latest achievements something that people have always known.
Mikhail Weller "Cassandra"
We, without realizing it, have given birth to a whole generation of devices that are already so perfect that they are about to start doing without us.
Boris Krieger "Maskin"
Computer science has given us the right to complete and safe delusions of grandeur.
Bernard Werber "Revolution of the Ants"
Modern technologies are making people increasingly weak-minded.
Vladimir Mikhailov
I admit that technology is more powerful and stronger than me: it works when it wants, and when it doesn’t want, then its owner better read a newspaper, take a walk, wait until the mood of the cables changes and telephone networks, and then it will work again. What kind of owner am I - she lives her own life.
P. Coelho
The point is not that amateurs can afford to stick their nose anywhere - they are simply obliged to stick their nose anywhere, and to hell with all the scientific fools who try to hide them in some tight stone bag.
John Fowles
It seems to me that science with its sobriety,
intelligence and gray hair
digs around in nature with impudent agility
boys who rummage through the clock.
Igor Guberman
Science is like time. She always goes forward and never back. Each new day brings a lot of unknowns and brings us closer to revealing the secrets of the universe. This is the essence of science. Perpetual motion is the key to success. Knowledge moves us, and we, in turn, control the minds of those around us through the means of science.
K. Thompson
No matter how many illusions enthusiasts of the scientific method create on this score, it has never been, never will be and cannot be the only method of cognition, nor the only method of mastering matter.
Daniil Andreev "Rose of the World"
Painstakingly accumulating facts, deducing certain patterns from them, not understanding either their nature or direction, but mastering them mechanically, and at the same time being unable to predict what inventions and social upheavals its discoveries will lead to - science has long been accessible to everyone , regardless of everyone's moral character. The results are before our eyes and above our heads. The main one is that not a single person on Earth is guaranteed that at any moment a hydrogen bomb or another, even more stunning achievement of science will not be dropped on him and his fellow citizens by highly intelligent minds.
Daniil Andreev "Rose of the World"
Science is the best modern way satisfying the curiosity of individuals at the expense of the state.
L.A. Artsimovich
Only science will change the world. Science in a broad sense: how to split an atom, and how to raise children... And adults too.
Nikolay Amosov
For modern humanity, science has become an idol to which it is ready to make countless sacrifices, at least in words, and is even ready to sacrifice its dignity.
Nikolai Lossky
Human life is not eternal, but science and knowledge cross the threshold of centuries.
Igor Kurchatov
If a famous but old scientist claims that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. If he claims that something is impossible, he is very likely wrong.
Arthur Clarke
If an idea rejected by a famous but old scientist finds wide interest and warm support among the general (non-scientific) public, the famous but old scientist is definitely right.
Isaac Asimov
We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology, in which almost no one knows almost anything about either science or technology.
Carl Sagan
One of the greatest disasters of civilization is the learned fool.
Karel Capek
When you are thirsty, it seems that you will drink the whole sea - this is faith; and when you start drinking, you’ll only manage two glasses at most—that’s science.
A.P.Chekhov
A theory is something that no one believes except its author. An experiment is something that everyone believes except its author.
A. Einstein
I want to know all the thoughts of God... and the rest is just minor details.
A. Einstein
No, this trick doesn’t work... Well, how are you going to explain such an important thing in terms of chemistry and physics? biological phenomenon like first love?
A. Einstein
If we knew exactly what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
A. Einstein
What cannot be expressed in numbers is not science, but just opinion.
R. Heinlein
Science gives man ever-increasing power over the external world, literature helps him put the inner world in order.
Andre Maurois
If the form of manifestation and the essence of things directly coincided, then all science would be superfluous.
Karl Marx
What is science today is technology tomorrow.
Edward Teller
Man has lost the ability to foresee and prevent. He will end up destroying the earth.
Albert Schweitzer
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men, but no machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard
All great discoveries are made by people whose feelings precede their thoughts.
Charles Parkhurst
If I have managed to make any valuable discovery in my life, it is more due to patience and attention than due to any other talent.
Isaac Newton
Only those parts that are missing from the car do not wear out...
N.N.Smelyakov
The quantity and complexity of technology, lofty thoughts, wisdom, and erudition can pass for culture, but not for civilization. To become truly civilized, a society requires more than technical perfection and flight of thought.
Clifford Simak "Interchange Station"
The day will come when humanity will outsmart itself. The day will come when we will become mechanized to the point that there will be no place left for people on Earth, only for machines.
Clifford Simak
A common mistake of those who try to create something completely "foolproof" is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
D.Adams
Laziness is the mother of nine out of ten inventions.
Saunders
Our planet is too small for cars. In the end, people will live without moving, like plants.
Andre Maurois
: In science, you need to repeat lessons in order to remember them well; In morality, one must remember mistakes well so as not to repeat them.
Vasily Klyuchevsky:
Science is often confused with knowledge. This is a gross misunderstanding. Science is not only knowledge, but also consciousness, that is, the ability to use knowledge properly.Thomas Hobbes:
In the sciences we look for reasons not so much for what was, but for what could be.Friedrich Schiller:
For one, science is an exalted heavenly goddess; for another, it is a cash cow that provides him with oil.Michael Faraday:
Science wins when its wings are unfettered by imagination.Lucian:
Life is short, but science is long.Michel de Montaigne:
Science is a very difficult matter. Science is only suitable for strong minds.Michel de Montaigne:
Science is a wonderful drug; but no drug is so stable that it can be preserved without being damaged or altered if the vessel in which it is stored is bad.Michel de Montaigne:
Science is a great decoration and a very useful tool...DI. Mendeleev:
Science begins as soon as they begin to measure. Exact science is unthinkable without measure.DI. Mendeleev:
Science fights superstitions like light fights darkness.M.V. Lomonosov:
Science is a clear knowledge of the truth, the enlightenment of the mind, the immaculate joy of life, the praise of youth, the support of old age, the builder of cities, regiments, the fortress of success in misfortune, in happiness - an adornment, everywhere a faithful and constant companion.Leonardo da Vinci:
Science is the commander, and practice is his soldiers.S.P. Kapitsa:
Attempts to frame the most significant achievements of science as someone else's discoveries are just a way to satisfy the vanity of their authors. In fact, these achievements belong to humanity as a whole.Descartes:
The aim of scientific pursuits should be to direct the mind in such a way that it makes sound and true judgments about all objects encountered.Today here are collected quotes about science, which decides a lot in our modern life. If we take it and discard it and imagine that it is not in our life, then, probably, there is no life in modern form there won't be. Therefore, like science itself, quotes about science are important.
I have scientific question: Homo sapiens became extinct because they were homosexuals?
- Joe, homosapiens are people.
- But I don’t blame them...
TV series "Friends"
We will be destroyed by politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, wealth without work, knowledge without character, business without morals, science without humanity and prayer without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi
Equations are more important to me because politics is for the present, and equations are for eternity.
Albert Einstein
When science is powerless, God appears.
Film "The Notebook"
What a sad era when it is easier to break an atom than to abandon prejudices.
Albert Einstein
Poking a dead raccoon with a stick is not science!
Cartoon "The Simpsons"
"Why?" - this is the question about which all logic, all philosophy, all science has so far been broken.
Erich Maria Remarque. Arc de Triomphe
No amount of experiments can prove a theory, but one experiment is enough to disprove it.
Albert Einstein
The Nobel Prize is a life preserver that is thrown to a swimmer once he has reached the shore safely.
George Bernard Shaw
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
Bertrand Russell
The only thing my long life: that all our science in the face of reality looks primitive and childishly naive - and yet it is the most valuable thing we have.
Albert Einstein
Discoveries come only to those who are prepared to understand them.
Louis Pasteur
The most exciting phrase you can hear in science, the phrase that announces new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” at all, but “That’s funny...”.
Isaac Asimov
Progress does not consist in replacing an incorrect theory with a correct one, but in replacing one incorrect theory with another incorrect, but refined one.
Stephen Hawking
The most necessary science is the science of forgetting the unnecessary.
Antisthenes
Science is systematized knowledge about the world around us, which reflects its most important aspects. With the help of science, people today can live to the maximum comfortable life. The desire for truth has always been inherent in people. However, science had to overcome many obstacles before man could enjoy its fruits. For example, during the Middle Ages the rate of progress slowed down due to the fact that scientific research became dependent on the church. Scientific knowledge helps to improve both the spiritual and material side human life. How did great people speak about science?
Thoughts of geniuses
A. S. Pushkin owns a statement that can be to the fullest attributed to quotes about science. The famous Russian poet said: “Following the thoughts of a great man is the most entertaining science.” Indeed, geniuses and great people have always attracted the attention of society with their unusual way of thinking and ability to solve non-standard problems. Psychologists have been trying for decades to track and systematize the thinking patterns of great people. Notice patterns thought process smart and educated person means learning to think creatively, outside the box, and therefore to solve new problems more effectively.
Science is a great work
S. L. Sobolev has another wonderful quote about science: “All scientific work 99 percent consists of failures, and maybe only one percent consists of successes.” This statement is confirmed by the biographies of many great scientists of the past and present. Science is very hard work that requires perseverance and perseverance. Without these qualities it is impossible to achieve success.
A good illustration of this is also the story of the invention of the light bulb by Thomas Edison. This scientist received the famous nickname - “self-taught from America.” It is difficult to believe this fact, but the great explorer did not study a single year at school. Most teachers considered him a fool, prone to unreasonable dreams.
Endurance is the key to success
While working on the invention of the incandescent lamp, Edison demonstrated real miracles of endurance - once he did not sleep for 45 hours in a row. Here the quote about science by A.F. Ioffe is true: “The problem is solved not by the one who enjoys partial success, but by the researcher who achieves a full result.”
How else did Edison show his persistence in scientific research? It is a well-known fact: the scientist tried about six thousand different materials to find the optimal one for the filament. In the end, the persistent inventor settled on the most suitable - Japanese bamboo.
About the work of the mind
Isaac Newton said: “I keep the subject of my research constantly in my mind and persistently wait for the moment until the first glimpse is gradually completely transformed into a brilliant light.” Psychologists studying the peculiarities of the mind of great scientists and inventors gradually came to the conclusion: constant intense observation of the object of their research sooner or later leads to the fact that a light bulb seems to light up in the scientist’s mind. "Eureka!" - everyone remembers this exclamation of Archimedes when, after much thought, he was finally able to discover his famous law. Creativity in science always begins with creativity within the mind. Each craft can only be mastered through long and intense training - and in this, Newton’s statement could not be more true.
Science should be useful
Louis Pasteur has the following quote about science: “The progress of science is determined by the work of its scientists and the value of their discoveries.” Indeed, if a scientific achievement does not benefit humanity, then it turns out to be completely pointless. Why is an invention necessary if it cannot be used to solve significant problems, cure sick people, or solve scientific problems? Unfortunately, in many sciences there are entire areas of research that do not solve any problems.
Of course, some may argue that such areas of human knowledge as philosophy and mathematics do not solve applied problems. They do not directly affect real world- none quadratic equation has not yet helped the patient recover from fatal disease. However, with their help it becomes possible development other sciences. Niels Abel said: “Mathematics is for a scientist what a scalpel is for an anatomist.”
Are humanities necessary?
There is a well-known quote about the humanities by M. Foucault: “The humanities address a person insofar as he lives, speaks, produces.” Indeed, complete knowledge about the world around us cannot be obtained only with the help of the exact sciences, despite their vital role. However, humanitarian knowledge allows us to understand human nature, manage social processes, make society more stable.
Science Quotes
Scientist L. Boltzmann said: “The goal natural sciences is the revelation of the forces of nature." Indeed, all natural science research is aimed at identifying the true patterns driving natural forces. Such sciences are physics, chemistry, biology and others. Quotes about science from great people help you understand what is important for this type of knowledge. For example, Academician D.S. Likhachev warns: “The main enemy of science is scientificity.” Therefore, it is necessary to strive not for the appearance of gaining knowledge, but for the acquisition of truth.
Science is the knowledge of stupid other people's opinions.
Georg Lichtenberg
All science is prediction.
Herbert Spencer
Science is spectral analysis; art is a synthesis of light.
Karl Kraus (1874–1936), Austrian writer
What was an art that separated the smart from the stupid becomes a science that unites them.
Mikhail Gasparov (b. 1935), philologist
Science is often confused with knowledge. This is a gross misunderstanding. Science is not only knowledge, but also consciousness, that is, the ability to use knowledge properly.
Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841–1911), historian
Science is a belief in the ignorance of experts.
Richard Feynman (1918–1988), American physicist
Science begins with myths and with a critical attitude towards myths.
Karl Popper (1902–1994), Austrian-British philosopher
Science is always wrong. She is not able to solve a single question without raising a dozen new ones.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), English playwright
Science confirms our misconceptions.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909–1966), Polish poet and aphorist
Science does not answer all questions, even in the investigator's office.
Henryk Jagodzinski (b. 1928), Polish satirist
Science does not answer all questions, but it helps to understand the meaninglessness of many of them.
Henryk Jagodzinski
Science, like virtue, is its own reward.
Charles Kingsley (1819–1875), English writer
There can be no scientific morality; but in the same way there cannot be an immoral science.
Henri Poincaré (1854–1912), French mathematician and physicist
If curiosity concerns serious problems, it is already called the thirst for knowledge.
Maria Ebner Eschenbach (1830–1916), Austrian writer
Knowledge is one of the forms of asceticism.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher
To understand any science, you need to know the history of this science.
Auguste Comte (1798–1857), French philosopher
Scientific knowledge is not needed anywhere except science.
Cyril Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993), English essayist
Give a superstitious person science and he will turn it into superstition.
George Bernard Shaw
The bankruptcy of science is most often said by those who have not invested a penny in this enterprise.
Felix Chwalibug (1866–1930), Polish man of letters
The only thing my long life has taught me is that all our science, in the face of reality, looks primitive and childishly naive - and yet it is the most valuable thing we have.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955), German physicist
The less I believe in science, the more I fear it.
Jean Rostand (1894–1977), French biologist
The Church saves sinners, science is looking for ways to stop their production.
Elbert Hubbard (1859–1915), American writer
Science finds cures easier than answers.
Jean Rostand
Society can be divided into two parts: those who believe that science can do everything, and those who are afraid that it will be so.
Dixie Rae (1914–1994), American politician
As science increases our power, it decreases our pride in ourselves.
Claude Bernard (1813–1878), French physiologist
Science made us gods before we learned to be human.
Jean Rostand
It seems that things are heading towards the fact that Science will discover God. And I tremble in advance for his fate.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec
Science is a way of unraveling the mysteries of the world by discovering new mysteries.
A. Davidovich
Science is a drama of ideas.
A. Einstein
Science is a graveyard of hypotheses.
A. Poincare
Science is the systematic expansion of the field of human ignorance.
R. Gutovsky
Science is not and will never be a finished book. Every important success brings new questions. Every development reveals new and deeper difficulties over time.
A. Einstein
Science has conquered many diseases and solved genetic code and even allowed a man to land on the moon, but when an eighteen-year-old man stays in the same room with two eighteen-year-old barmaids, nothing happens. Because the real problems are the same from century to century.
B. Allen
Science serves only to give us an idea of the extent of our ignorance.
F. Lamennais
Just as for some science seems like a heavenly goddess, so for others it seems like a fat cow that gives them butter.
F. Schiller
Moving forward, science constantly crosses itself out.
V. Hugo
The most ardent defenders of science, who cannot bear even a slight sidelong glance at it, are usually those people who have achieved very little in science and who are aware of this shortcoming of theirs.
G. Lichtenberg
The key to all science is the question mark.
O. Balzac
It is not the truths of science that are difficult, but the clearing human consciousness from all the hereditary rubbish, from all the settled silt, from mistaking the unnatural for the natural, the incomprehensible for the understandable.
A. Herzen
An undoubted sign of true science is the awareness of the insignificance of what you know in comparison with what is revealed.
L. Tolstoy
The fruits of true science and true art are the fruits of sacrifice, not of material gain.
R. Rolland
All the power of science is aimed today at strengthening the State. Not a single scientist thought of using his knowledge to protect the individual. Here, perhaps, Freemasonry would be useful.
A. Camus
The living luminary of science is a learned man who has privatized the circle scientific problems and jealously protecting them from the encroachment of those who see the solution to these problems differently.
V. Zubkov
Many discoveries in science are made by chance, but not by chance people.
Author unknown
Astronomy grew out of superstition; eloquence - from ambition, hatred, flattery, lies; geometry - out of greed; physics - out of empty curiosity; all sciences, even morality itself, come from human pride.
J. J. Rousseau
Scientific work is when you read two books that no one has ever read in order to write a third book that no one will read.
Definition proposed by NASA employees
Basic scientific method- trial and error method.
Author unknown
I lost interest in science books
Not because I became lazy;
Learning is too bitter,
And the fruit, as a rule, is wormy.
I. Tuberman
One small doubt: I am afraid that, while conquering new stars, man may lose the ground under his feet.
E. Lec
