Have you ever wondered what life would be like without all the scientific discoveries that have been made? Without scientific progress and breakthroughs driven by the most amazing minds in history, we would not only continue to live in caves, but we would not understand our place in the Universe.
In this sense, the most famous scientists have left us phrases and reflections on life that, without a doubt, will be remembered forever. In today's article we bring you some of those that have already gone down to posterity.
Great phrases from personalities of the scientific community
To remind us of the importance of science and the advances that have been made throughout history, we bring you a compilation of the best phrases from scientists that will make you reflect.
one. What we know is a drop of water; what we ignore is the ocean. (Isaac Newton)
Knowledge is infinite.
2. Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we can fear less. (Marie Curie)
We tend to be afraid of the unknown, when the best way to deal with it is to discover its mysteries.
3. Science is a way of thinking, much more than a body of knowledge (Carl Sagan)
Science tests people's creative ingenuity and flexibility of thought.
4. Science is the progressive approximation of man to the real world. (Max Planck)
Thanks to science we have been able to discover the mysteries of nature.
5. True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant. (Miguel de Unamuno)
It is necessary to have a degree of ignorance in science, to be able to discover new things.
6. If you can't communicate what you've been doing, your work will be worthless. (Erwin Schrödinger)
It is important that discoveries can be understood by everyone.
7. There are, in truth, two different things: knowing and believing that one knows. Science consists in knowing; in believing that one knows is ignorance. (Hippocrates)
A clear difference between knowing and believing you know.
8. In matters of science, the authority of thousands is not worth more than the humble reasoning of a single individual. (Galileo Galilei)
It all begins with the doubt of a single man.
9. The end of speculative science is truth, and the end of practical science is action. (Aristotle)
There are several steps within science for it to be true.
10. Little knowledge makes people proud. A lot of knowledge, that they feel humble. (Leonardo da Vinci)
Is this why the wise are always simple and humble people?
eleven. It is strange that only extraordinary people make discoveries that later appear easily and simply. (Georg Lichtenberg)
A very interesting curiosity in the world of science.
12. The most beautiful thing we can experience is mystery. It is the source of all art and all science. (Albert Einstein)
The mystery is what leads us to continue investigating.
13. Every idea that succeeds goes to its perdition. (André Breton)
Therefore, once you reach the top, you have to keep working so as not to fall.
14. What God has separated cannot be put back together by man. (W. Pauli. Physicist)
Talking about the criticisms received to his work on the theory of unification of fields.
fifteen. The birth of science was the death of superstition. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
A great reality that has clarified human ignorance.
16. Work gives you meaning and purpose, and life is empty without both. (Stephen Hawking)
That's why it's important to work on something you love.
17. Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. (Adam Smith)
Once again we are reminded of the great achievement of science.
18. Science will always be a search, never a real discovery. It is a journey, never an arrival. (Karl Raimund Popper)
Science never ends, it always renews and advances.
19. Keep things as simple as you can, but don't limit yourself to simple. (Albert Einstein)
A very interesting suggestion to make us reflect.
twenty. There is no law except the law that there is no law. (John Archibald Wheeler)
An applicable paradox in science.
twenty-one. Science is basically the inoculation against charlatans. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson)
If science has proven it, then it's real.
22. Science is believing in the ignorance of scientists. (Richard Phillips Feynman)
No one can achieve absolute knowledge.
23. A man who dares waste an hour has not discovered the value of life. (Charles Darwin)
Talking about the importance of appreciating every moment of our lives.
24. Science can discover what is true, but not what is good, just, and humane. (Marcus Jacobson)
Another noteworthy point, science has not always had a humanist side.
25. Truth is a corrosive acid that almost always splashes the handler. (Santiago Ramón y Cajal)
Not everyone can bear the weight of the truth.
26. We are all scientists when we are children, but when we grow up, only a few of us retain a little of that curiosity that is the mother of science. (Juan Aguilar M.)
That is why it is important to keep a little of that child that we once were inside of us growing up.
27. Has science promised happiness? I don't believe it. He has promised the truth and the question is whether happiness will ever be achieved with the truth. (Emile Zola)
Truth is the absolute end of science.
28. Men build too many walls and not enough bridges. (Isaac Newton)
There is always this selfish feeling of being the only ones to get that knowledge.
29. The history of science shows us that theories are perishable. With each new truth revealed, we have a better understanding of nature and our conceptions, and our points of view, are modified. (Nicholas Tesla)
Science is never static, it is always evolving.
30. Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if truth is put before nationality, ethnicity, class, and color. (John C. Polanyi)
In this field of study there should be no such thing as racism.
31. He who does not want to be advised cannot be helped. (Benjamin Franklin)
It is necessary to have help to reach the goal.
32. Equipped with his five senses, the man explores the universe around him and calls his adventures science. (Edwin Powell Hubble)
Sometimes great discoveries come from unexpected places.
33. Science has a wonderful characteristic, and that is that it learns from its mistakes. (Ruy Perez Tamayo)
Everything in it is based on the premise of 'trial and error'.
3. 4. A computer is to me the most amazing tool we have ever devised. It is the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds. (Steve Jobs)
Talking about one of the greatest inventions of all: the computer.
35. I can't waste time making money. (Jean R.L. Agassiz)
True scientists do not seek to fill their pockets with money, but with knowledge.
36. To live is to face one problem after another. The way you approach it makes a difference. (Benjamin Franklin)
A great lesson that should motivate us to find better ways to solve problems.
37. Religion is the culture of faith; science is the culture of doubt. (Richard Feynman)
Doubt engenders all theories in the world of science.
38. When a prestigious but elderly scientist claims that something is impossible, he is most likely wrong. (Arthur C. Clarke)
New minds can see something impossible in a different way to make it possible.
39. Science never solves a problem without creating 10 more. (George Bernard Shaw)
It is a constant cycle of questions and answers.
40. Science has no country. (Louis Pasteur)
Although everyone carries their flag in their hearts, there are no impositions of a nation.
41. Science is fine furniture for a man's upstairs, as long as his common sense is downstairs. (Oliver W. Holmes)
It is important to open your mind to enter the world of science, but also to keep your feet on the ground.
42. Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity can be eternal. (Matt Artson)
The clear difference between ignorance and stupidity.
43. Knowledge is not a vessel that is filled, but a fire that is kindled. (Plutarch)
We never fill ourselves with too much knowledge.
44. The saddest aspect of life at this very moment is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. (Isaac Asimov)
Not everyone is willing to listen to what science has to say.
Four. Five. Mathematics can be defined as that subject about which we never know what we say or if what we say is true. (Bertrand Russell)
Mathematics is an essential part of nature.
46. After all, what is a scientist then? He is a curious man who looks through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to find out what is going on. (Jacques Yves Cousteau)
What do you think a scientist should be?
47. Science is made of data, like a stone house. But a pile of data is no more science than a pile of stones is a house. (Henri Poincar)
An interesting clarification about what makes up scientific results.
48. Modern science has not yet produced a calming medicine as effective as a few kind words. (Sigmund Freud)
Science perhaps still lacks that human component that everyone needs.
49. Laboratory chemistry and living body chemistry obey the same laws. There are no two chemicals. (Claude Bernard)
All chemistry is one.
fifty. Free scientific research? The second adjective is redundant. (Ayn Rand)
All scientific research is free.
51. Applied sciences do not exist, only the applications of science. (Louis Pasteur)
If it cannot be applied, it may not be very practical.
52. Science, my boy, is made of mistakes, but useful mistakes to make, because little by little, they lead to the truth. (Julio Verne)
All errors within science are only steps towards the truth.
53. In all the great men of science there is the breath of fantasy. (Giovanni Papini)
It all starts with a hint of imagination.
54. Machines evolve and reproduce at a prodigious speed. If we don't declare war to the death, it will be too late to resist their rule. (Samuel Butler)
Talking about a prediction about the conquest of the machines.
55. Scientists do not pursue the truth; it is this that persecutes them. (Karl Schlecta)
Will it be the truth that persecutes the scientists?
56. The opposite of a correct formulation is an incorrect formulation. But the opposite of one deep truth may very well be another deep truth. (Niels Henrik David Bohr)
To rule out an 'absolute truth' you have to find another equal one.
57. Investigating is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no one else has thought. (Albert Szent-Györgyi)
The good side of research is that something new can always be discovered from it.
58. The scientist is not the person who gives the right answers, but the one who asks the right questions. (Claude Lévi-Strauss)
It is from the right questions that innovative answers can come out.
59. I think the reason why people are less interested in science today than they were fifty years ago is that it has become so complicated. (James Watson)
The negative side of science is the extreme complexity with which it is shown.
60. Science without conscience is nothing more than ruin of the soul. (Francois Rabelais)
That is why we must never put aside our humanity.
61. You have to make life a dream and a dream a reality. (Pierre Curie)
A beautiful lesson.
62. The scientific education of young people is at least as important, perhaps even more so, than the research itself. (Glenn Theodore Seaborg)
It is necessary to encourage young people's creative capacity for science.
63. The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new data, but to discover new ways of thinking about it. (William Lawrence Bragg)
Perhaps the most beautiful thing about science is that it allows us to expand our ability to think and imagine.
64. What started today as a science fiction novel will end tomorrow as a report. (Arthur C. Clarke)
Many of the discoveries once seemed like science fiction.
65. Science increases our power to the extent that it reduces our pride. (Herbert Spencer)
Each discovery brings with it a degree of humility.
66. The most dangerous science is that which is restricted to the domain of experts. (Richard Pawson)
Why can only a special group have access to something we should all know about?
67. One could not be a good scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception held by newspapers and by mothers of scientists, a good number of scientists are not only obtuse and narrow-minded, but also just plain stupid. (James Watson)
Be aware that there will always be someone trying to sabotage progress.
68. The sciences are all intertwined with each other: it is much easier to learn them all together at the same time than to separate one from the others. (Rene Descartes)
All sciences benefit each other, none is more or less important.
69. In principle, the investigation needs more heads than means. (Severo Ochoa)
It is useless to publish something whose complete veracity is not known.
70. Connect with a scientist and you will be connecting with a child. (Ray Bradbury)
All scientists should remain little children.
71. A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. (Madeleine L'Engle)
Not always a straight line leads you to something.
72. Facts are the air of science. Without them, a man of science can never rise. (Ivan Pavlov)
Facts are fundamental in science.
73. Until the end I will simply remain Michael Faraday. (Michael Faraday)
Assuring that fame was not going to change him.
74. In science, recognition goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the one who comes up with the idea. (William Osler)
Unfortunately, recognition within science is not always fair.
75. We especially need imagination in the sciences. It's not all math and it's not all simple logic, it's also about a bit of beauty and poetry. (Maria Montessori)
Although logic is necessary to science, so is creativity.
76. Deep down, scientists are lucky people: we can play whatever we want throughout our lives. (Lee Smolin)
Is this premise true?
77. Science is not only a discipline of reason, but also of romance and passion. (Stephen Hawking)
Once again we are reminded that not everything is cold logic within the sciences.
78. Magic is just a science that we don't understand yet. (Arthur C. Clarke)
A phrase that leaves us with much to reflect on.
79. Research is what I do when I don't know what I'm doing. (Wernher von Braun)
When we don't know something, we investigate.
80. We have to realize that science is actually a double-edged sword. (Michio Kaku)
It can bring beneficial things, as well as something that ruins the balance of the world.
81. Art is "I"; Science is "us". (Claude Bernard)
In science, it is impossible for one person to do all the work.
82. Science is a graveyard of dead ideas, although life can come out of them. (Unamuno)
You can always take a rejected idea and study it from another point of view.
83. It is true that great discoveries have often been made without looking for them directly, but the unprepared spirit is incapable of detecting this surprise of nature. (Luis Franco Vera)
Although some discoveries have been made spontaneously, those who discover them are experts.
84. Disease research has advanced so much that it is increasingly difficult to find someone who is completely he althy. (Aldous Huxley)
Talking about the advancement of medicine.
85. Science is the key to our future and if you don't believe in science then you are holding us all back. (Bill Nye)
Science and progress go hand in hand.
86. We would be in a bad position if empirical science were the only possible kind of science. (Edmund Husserl)
Luckily, even science itself has moved on.
87. We must call science only the set of formulas that always triumph. All the rest is literature. (Paul Valery)
Could it be that science is only those discoveries that succeed?
88. He who has come so far that he is no longer confused, he has also stopped working. (Max Planck)
Getting this far is the goal of many.
89. In research, the process is even more important than the achievement itself. (Emilio Muñoz)
Once again we are reminded that in science what is important is the journey, not the arrival.
90. Science rivals mythology in miracles. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Miracles have also come true thanks to scientific advances.