40 quotes from scientists that deserve our recognition

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion.

Isaac Newton

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

If the misery of the poor is not caused by the laws of nature, but by institutions, our sin is great.

Charles Darwin

The proof that in the future there will be no time travel is that we are not being visited by the travelers of the future.

Stephen Hawking

We must believe that we are endowed with something and that this thing must be achieved at any cost.

Marie Curie

Luck favors the well-prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

Dissatisfaction is the main driver of progress.

Thomas Edison

Chance plays a key role in the Universe.

Werner Heisenberg

Science is, therefore, a perversion of itself, unless it has as its ultimate end, to improve humanity.

Nikola Tesla

To speak obscurely, anyone knows; clearly, very rare.

Galileo Galilei

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my best friend is the truth.

Isaac Newton

As every scientific discovery gives more power over nature, it can increase good or evil.

César Lattes

Science and everyday life cannot and must not be separated.

Rosalind Franklin

Our virtues and our defects are inseparable, just like force and matter, when they are separated, man ceases to exist.

Nikola Tesla

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Isaac Newton

Smart decisions are those that, unlike closing doors, keep doors open for other decisions in the future.

Suzana Herculano

Humanity’s great achievements have been obtained by talking, and the great failures by the lack of dialogue.

Stephen Hawking

Ideas are not responsible for what men do with them.

Werner Heisenberg

I didn’t do anything myself, but I tried to get to the root of the issue and I succeeded.

Katherine Johnson

One must always learn, even from an enemy.

Isaac Newton

The brain that receives affection works better.

Suzana Herculano

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Man, in his arrogance, thinks of himself as a great work deserving of divine intervention.

Charles Darwin

Science has no country.

Louis Pasteur

If you want to have a good idea, have a lot of ideas.

Thomas Edison

Two truths can never contradict each other.

Galileo Galilei

Science cannot predict what will happen. It can only predict the probability of something happening.

César Lattes

In nature nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything is transformed.

Antoine Lavoisier

Men don’t pay attention to the little things.

Katherine Johnson

What we know is a drop; what we ignore is an ocean.

Isaac Newton

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Marie Curie

The future will show the results and judge each one according to his accomplishments.

Nikola Tesla

Science is a younger (perhaps bastard) sister of art.

César Lattes

I have never met a person so ignorant that he could not have learned something from his ignorance.

Galileo Galilei

I can calculate the movement of celestial bodies, but not the madness of people.

Isaac Newton

Wondering is the first step towards discovery.

Louis Pasteur

Most people are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are totally oblivious to what is going on inside them.

Nikola Tesla

An experiment is never a failure, as it always demonstrates something.

Thomas Edison

The learned man is a discoverer of facts that already exist, but the wise man is a creator of values ​​that do not exist and that he makes exist.

Albert Einstein

You cannot hope to build a world without improving people. Each of us must work on his own improvement.

Marie Curie