Best 50 quotes from some of the world’s top physicists:

  1. “The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.” – Albert Einstein
  2. “Science is the poetry of reality.” – Richard Dawkins
  3. “The only source of knowledge is experience.” – Albert Einstein
  4. “I am among those who think that science has great beauty.” – Marie Curie
  5. “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan
  6. “The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson
  7. “Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” – Carl Sagan
  8. “The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson
  9. “Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.” – Robert A. Heinlein
  10. “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” – Albert Einstein
  11. “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” – Albert Einstein
  12. “The universe doesn’t care what you believe. The wonderful thing about science is that it doesn’t ask for your faith, it just asks for your eyes.” – Lawrence Krauss
  13. “The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” – Eden Phillpotts
  14. “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” – Immanuel Kant
  15. “Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.” – Rosalind Franklin
  16. “In science, there are no shortcuts to truth.” – Carl Sagan
  17. “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” – Stephen Hawking
  18. “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” – Albert Einstein
  19. “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton
  20. “The atoms may be compared to the letters of the alphabet, which can be put together to form innumerable combinations.” – Nikola Tesla
  21. “The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.” – Albert Einstein
  22. “The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.” – J.B.S. Haldane
  23. “Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.” – Adam Smith
  24. “Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.” – Louis Pasteur
  25. “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein
  26. “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” – Isaac Asimov
  27. “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.” – Richard Feynman
  28. “A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.” – Marie Curie
  29. “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” – Albert Einstein
  30. “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” – Albert Einstein
  31. “Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.” – Werner Heisenberg
  32. “The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.” – Carl Sagan
  33. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
  34. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
  35. “Science is the great intellectual adventure of our time.” – Stephen Hawking
  36. “I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.” – Richard Feynman
  37. “In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.” – Galileo Galilei
  38. “Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.” – Thomas Huxley
  39. “All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.” – Albert Einstein
  40. “What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.” – Isaac Newton
  41. “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.” – Stephen Hawking
  42. “I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.” – Albert Einstein
  43. “The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
  44. “Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.” – Jacob Bronowski
  45. “The important thing is to never stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein
  46. “Science is not only a disciple of reason but also one of romance and passion.” – Stephen Hawking
  47. “The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” – Eden Phillpotts
  48. “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein
  49. “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.” – Albert Einstein
  50. “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” – Albert Einstein