Inspirational Science for Curious Minds
Discover the amazing ideas of modern science through quotes from today’s top thinkers. Let these words spark your interest and passion for learning.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean — Isaac Newton
Geology is the history of the earth written in its rocks — James Hutton
Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth — E.O. Wilson
The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do — B.F. Skinner
The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly complex thing — Stephen Jay Gould
We only see a short distance ahead, but much needs to be done — Alan Turing
The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you — Neil deGrasse Tyson
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough — Albert Einstein
Every great scientific advance comes from a new audacity of imagination — John Dewey
We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to — Terry Swearingen
AI will do for mental work what the steam engine did for manual work — Andrew Ng
Science is the great antidote to enthusiasm and superstition — Adam Smith
The human brain is the most complex thing we have yet discovered — Stephen Hawking
Do not see the forest for the trees, nor the trees for the forest — Richard Dawkins
The ocean is vast and mysterious; we've only just begun to explore it — Sylvia Earle
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see — Henry David Thoreau
AI will be the best or worst thing ever for humanity — Elon Musk
The danger of AI is not that it will get too smart, but that it will get too dumb — Peter Thiel
The atom bomb is a reminder that science can be used for good or for ill — Linus Pauling
A man can do anything, but he can't do everything — Wernher von Braun
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