Science Quotes

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.

There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

Wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man away from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the heart. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-realisation.