That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.              —Jacob Bronowski

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.                    —Albert Einstein

The general public has long been divided into two parts: those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.  —Dixie Lee Ray

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.               —Carl Sagan

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (“I’ve found it!”) but “That’s funny...”                                                                                            —Isaac Asimov

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.          —Galileo Galilei

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.    —Loren Eiseley

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

                                                                —Sir William Lawrence Bragg

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

                                                                                       —Immanuel Kant

The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as our own.                   —Paul Davies

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.               —Thomas Browne

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.                                                                                               —Mark Twain

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

                                                                                          —Edward Teller

Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

—Henri Poincaré