Quotes from great scientists. Aphorisms about science

: 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.

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Michael Faraday:

Lucian:

Michel de Montaigne:

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Quotes, aphorisms and statements about Science.

5382. Science is a magnificent drug; but no drug is so stable that it can be preserved and not be damaged or changed if the vessel in which it is stored is bad. M. de Montaigne.
5383. Science is eternal in its source, not limited in its activity by either time or space, incommensurable in its scope, infinite in its task. K. Baer.
5384. Science is a very difficult matter. Science is only suitable for strong minds. M. de Montaigne.
5385. Science must be the most sublime embodiment of the fatherland, for of all nations the first will always be the one that is ahead of others in the field of thought and mental activity. L. Pasteur.
5386. Science is the best way to satisfy the curiosity of individuals at the expense of the state. L. Artsimovich.
5387. Science is the best way to make the human spirit heroic. D. Bruno.
5388. Science is nothing more than a reflection of reality. F. Bacon.
5389. 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. M. Lomonosov.
5390. Science is the captain, and practice is the soldiers. Leonardo da Vinci.
5391. Science is not a magical cornucopia, but only a means of transforming the world in the hands of people. D. Bernal.
5392. Science does not know what it owes to the imagination. R. Emerson.
5393. Science is not a subject of pure thinking, but a subject of thinking constantly involved in practice and constantly reinforced by practice. This is why science cannot learn in isolation from technology. D. Bernal.
5394. Science is nothing more than perception. Plato.
5395. 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.
5396. Science never solves a question without raising a dozen new ones. B. Shaw.
5397. Science is an ocean. It is equally open to man and frigate. One swims in it with valuable goods, the other only wants to bring home a catch of herring. E.D. Bulwer-Lytton.
5398. Science is the main element that unites the thoughts of people scattered around the globe, and this is one of its highest purposes. In my opinion, there is no human activity where agreement between people was not so obvious. F. Joliot-Curie.
5399. Science is an open table for one and all, as long as there is hunger, as long as the need for manna from heaven develops. A. Herzen.
5400. Science is the most important, the most beautiful and necessary in a person’s life, it has always been and will be the highest manifestation of love, only with it will a person conquer nature and himself. A. Chekhov.
5401. Science is power, it reveals the relationships of things, their laws and interactions. A. Herzen.
5402. Science is a way of unraveling the mysteries of the world by discovering new mysteries. A. Davidovich.
5403. Science does not exist in order to kindle light in a soul that is deprived of it, nor in order to make the blind see; its purpose is not to give vision, but to guide it, to show a person the way if his legs are naturally straight and can walk. M. de Montaigne.
5404. Science is what we know, philosophy is what we do not know. B. Russell.
5405. Science requires the whole person, without ulterior motives, with a willingness to give everything and, as a reward, to receive the heavy cross of sober knowledge. A. Herzen.
5406. Science is great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not just a technician: he is a child face to face with natural phenomena that act on him like a fairy tale. M. Sklodowska-Curie.
5407. Science is, at its best, common sense—strictly precise in observation and merciful to errors in logic. T. Huxley.
5408. Science is the highest mind of humanity, it is the sun that man created from his own flesh and blood, created and lit in front of himself in order to illuminate the darkness of his difficult life, in order to find a way out to freedom, justice, beauty. M. Gorky.
5409. Science is a drama of ideas. A. Einstein.
5410. Science is a graveyard of hypotheses. A. Poincare.
5411. Science is a treasure, and a learned person will never be lost. Petronius.
5412. Science is any discipline in which the fools of one generation can go beyond the point reached by the geniuses of the previous generation. M. Gluckmann.
5413. Science is the tireless centuries-old work of thought to bring together through a system all the knowable phenomena of our world. A. Einstein.
5414. Science is nothing more than developed perception explained by intention, complete and minutely dissected common sense. D. Santayana.
5415. Science is organized knowledge. G. Spencer.
5416. Science is an attempt to bring the chaotic diversity of our sensory experience into conformity with some unified system of thinking. A. Einstein.
5417. Science is the systematic expansion of the field of human ignorance. R. Gutovsky.

5418. Science is what scientists do, and scientists are those who in a given era consider themselves scientists. S. Amsterdam.
5419. Sciences nourish youths, serve joy to elders, decorate them in a happy life, protect them in an accident... M. Lomonosov.
5420. Science without literature is soulless and rude; Literature without science is empty, for the essence of literature is knowledge. A. France.
5421. Science in a depraved person is a fierce weapon to do evil. Enlightenment elevates one virtuous soul. D. Fonvizin.
5422. Science and experience are only means, only ways of collecting materials for the mind. M. Lomonosov.
5423. The science of healing the soul is philosophy. Cicero.
5424. The science of man is the science of the sages. K. Helvetius.
HIGH TECHNOLOGY
5425. High technology is a technology that requires raw materials worth a ruble, and intelligence worth a million. Zh. Alferov.
LEARN
5426. To learn the laws of life means to experience a whole series of humiliations, just like learning to skate. The only way out is to laugh at yourself along with the onlookers. B. Shaw.
SCIENTIFIC
5427. A scientific hypothesis always goes beyond the facts that served as the basis for its construction. V. Vernadsky.
5428. The scientific problem is that a decent lady: the more modest and respectful you approach her, the sooner she will allow herself to be understood. V. Klyuchevsky.
5429. 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.

Science is the best way to satisfy personal curiosity at public expense.

Lev Artsimovich
Art is “me”; science is “we”.

Claude Bernard
Life is short, but science is long.

Lucian of Samosata
We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, and therefore we can see more and further than they can.

Bernard of Chartres, followed by Isaac Newton
Science is any discipline in which the fools of one generation can go beyond the point reached by the geniuses of the previous generation.

Max Gluckmann
All science is prediction.

Herbert Spencer
Science is infallible, but scientists often make mistakes.

Anatole France
Science confirms our misconceptions.

Stanislav Jerzy Lec
Science is always wrong. She is not able to solve a single question without raising a dozen new ones.

George Bernard Shaw
Science does not answer all questions, even in an investigator's office.

Henryk Jagodzinski
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
Science is often confused with knowledge. This is a gross misunderstanding. Science is not only knowledge, but also consciousness, i.e. the ability to use knowledge properly.

Vasily Klyuchevsky
Science is organized knowledge.

Herbert Spencer
Science is the systematic expansion of the field of human ignorance.

Robert Gutowski
There is no science, there are only sciences.

Nikolay Berdyaev
Anyone who understands nothing but chemistry does not understand it enough.

Georg Lichtenberg
There are no applied sciences, there are only applications of science.

Louis Pasteur
Natural scientists discover only what is, and humanists even discover what could be.

Boleslaw Paszkowski
Sociology is a science with a maximum variety of methods and minimum results.

Henri Poincaré
Humanists complain about the ignorance of natural scientists, but cannot answer what the second law of thermodynamics is.

Charles Percy Snow
The joys of a naturalist: lifting up nature's skirts.

Jean Rostand
It is easier to create a world than to understand it.

Anatole France
Every exact science is based on approximation.

Leszek Kumor
Scientific truth triumphs as its opponents die out.

Paraphrased Max Planck
The mind and science are subject to fashion as much as earrings and buttons.

Denis Fonvizin
When science lacks arguments, it expands its vocabulary.

Jacques Deval
If geometric axioms affected people's interests, they would be refuted.

Thomas Hobbes
Three stages of recognition of scientific truth: the first - “this is absurd”, the second - “there is something in this”, the third - “this is generally known”.

Ernest Rutherford
In science, the glory goes to the one who convinced the world, not the one who came across the idea first.

Francis Darwin
In science, as in sports, participation is important, not results.

Ratmir Tumanovsky
If curiosity concerns serious problems, it is already called a thirst for knowledge.

Maria Ebner-Eschenbach
Knowledge is one of the forms of asceticism.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Science or life.

O. Donskoy
The bankruptcy of science is most often said by those who have not invested a penny in this enterprise.

Felix Hvalibug
Science made us gods before we learned to be human.

Jean Rostand
Whatever a scientist works on, the result is always a weapon.

NN
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
Scientific work. Scientific publications
See also “Dissertation and Academic Degree”, “Originality. Novelty", "Quotes"
A scientific paper 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
Scientific works reproduce by division.

Dmitry Pashkov based on Karel Capek's outline
When working on a problem, it is always useful to know the answer in advance.

NN
The high tower can only be reached by a spiral staircase.

Francis Bacon
The man worked smartly, worked and suddenly felt that he had become stupider than his work.

Vasily Klyuchevsky
This book is smarter than me.

Stanislav Lem on the “Sum of Technology”
Basic research is what I do when I have no idea what I'm doing.

Wernher von Braun
Basic research is like shooting an arrow into the air and drawing a target where it lands.

Homer Adkins
Explain anything completely to me, and I will explain everything to you.

NN
The better the work, the shorter it can be reported.

"Whittington's Law"
The number of errors in any passage of text is directly proportional to the number of borrowings from secondary sources.

Harold Faber
What is poorly understood is often tried to be explained using words that are not understood.

Gustave Flaubert
Explanatory expressions explain dark thoughts.

Kozma Prutkov
The summary begins where the author is tired of thinking.

"Maxima Matza"
Science fiction
Science fiction is not written for scientists, just as ghost stories are not written for ghosts.

Brian Aldis
Science fiction deals not with man, but with the human race as such, and even with possible types of intelligent beings.

Stanislav Lem
Science fiction is comics without pictures.

Kurt Vonnegut
It’s not nice to arrange a public end of the world to organize your personal affairs.

Stanislaw Lem on the “literature of world disasters”
Science fiction is the poor man's metaphysics.

Alexander Genis
Science fiction writers are people who lack imagination to understand reality.

Gabriel Laub
Fantastic stories about the future, after some time, retain only more or less clear features of the past.

Eduard Babaev
In science fiction novels, the main thing was the radio. With him, the happiness of mankind was expected. There is a radio, but there is no happiness.

Ilya Ilf

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Science is systematized knowledge about the world around us, which reflects its most important aspects. With the help of science, people today can live the most comfortable life possible. 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 level 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 aspects of human life. How did great people speak about science?

Thoughts of geniuses

A. S. Pushkin owns a statement that can be fully 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. Noticing the patterns of the thought process of an intelligent 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 owns another wonderful quote about science: “All scientific work consists of 99 percent 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 incandescent 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 influence the real world - not a single quadratic equation has yet helped a patient recover from a fatal disease. However, with their help, the development of other sciences becomes possible. Niels Abel said: “Mathematics is for a scientist what a scalpel is for an anatomist.”

Are humanities necessary?

There is a famous quote about humanities, belonging to 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 crucial role. However, humanitarian knowledge allows us to understand human nature, manage social processes, and make society more stable.

Science Quotes

The scientist L. Boltzmann said: “The goal of the natural sciences is to reveal 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.

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 to understand 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 the judicial process will lead to the fact that the judge, instead of banging a gavel, will press a button.
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 will not find the right solutions, they will only be able to point out the negative consequences of wrong decisions.
Bernard Werber "Empire of Angels"

From time to time, science, along with God knows what discoveries, confirms at the level of the latest achievements what 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 the newspaper, take a walk, wait until the mood of the cables and telephone networks changes, 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 to satisfy 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-science) 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 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 in terms of chemistry and physics such an important biological phenomenon as 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 excellence 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