Quotes about science

You don't have to be a qualified scientist to experiment with the world. Knowing some basic principles will set you on the right track... [I]t doesn't even have to be an organized process...

Science is not about 'them', it's about 'us'... we can all go on this adventure in our own way.

No one can understand every... detail of our complex world, but the basic principles are fantastically valuable tools...

This is what separates science from other disciplines—a scientific hypothesis must make specific testable predictions. ...[Y]ou have to look hard for consequences that you can check for, and especially... that you can prove wrong.

Science is always trying to prove itself wrong, because that's the quickest route to finding what's actually going on.

Learning the science of the everyday is a direct route to the... knowledge... every citizen needs...

Physics is awesome... because the same patterns are universal... in the kitchen and in the furthest reaches of the universe.

[S]imilarity in patterns is... a clue that hints at something... fundamental. ...[A] systematic basis for all such formations... This process of discovery is science: the continual refinement and testing of our understanding, alongside the digging that reveals even more...

We live on the edge, perched on the boundary between planet Earth and the rest of the Universe. ...Every human civilization has seen the stars, but no one has touched them. Our home on Earth is the opposite: messy... full of things... we touch and tweak... The physical world is full of startling variety... But this diversity isn't random. Our world is full of patterns.

School textbooks, unfortunately, sometimes render science as dogmatic as any fundamentalist doctrine. In truth, science is quintessentially open to revision and discovery.

Pure science is no more and no less than the logical process of deduction and experimentation upon observable events. It has no good or bad about it, merely right or wrong in a strictly mathematical definition. What people do with that science is cause for ethical debate, but it is not for the true scientist to concern themselves with that. Leave it to the politicians and philosophers.

Doing science with awe and humility is a powerful act of reciprocity with the more-than-human world.