Science Quotes ~

• “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny...” ~ Isaac Asimov
• “Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.” ~ Mary Baker Eddy
• “The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.” Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
• “The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.” ~ Alton Brown
• “Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics” ~ Carl Friedrich Gauss
• “Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.” ~ Thomas Huxley
• “It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.” ~ H. L. Mencken
• “We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.” ~ Jeremy Rifkin
• “Science does not know its debt to imagination.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
• “There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.” ~ Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 1883

N-O

Isaac Newton
Joseph Niepce
Alfred Nobel
Emmy Noether
John Howard Northrop
Georg Simon Ohm
J. Robert Oppenheimer

P

Paracelsus
Blaise Pascal
Louis Pasteur
Wolfgang Pauli
Linus Pauling
Roger Penrose
Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier
Max Planck
Henri Poincaré
Joseph Priestly
Joseph Proust

T

Edward Lawrie Tatum
Maria Telkes
Edward Teller
Nikola Tesla
Thales of Miletus
Margaret Thatcher
Axel Theorell
Benjamin Thompson
(Count Rumford)
Evangelista Torricelli
Hermes Trismegistus

U-V-W-X-Y-Z

Vincent de Vigneaud
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
Alessandro Volta
Chien-Shiung Wu