New modern aphorisms. Aphorisms about science

: In science, you need to repeat lessons in order to remember them well; In morality, one must remember mistakes well so as not to repeat them.

Vasily Klyuchevsky:

Science is often confused with knowledge. This is a gross misunderstanding. Science is not only knowledge, but also consciousness, that is, the ability to use knowledge properly.

Thomas Hobbes:

In the sciences we look for reasons not so much for what happened, but for what could have been.

Friedrich Schiller:

For one, science is an exalted heavenly goddess; for another, it is a cash cow that provides him with oil.

Michael Faraday:

Science wins when its wings are unfettered by imagination.

Lucian:

Life is short, but science is long.

Michel de Montaigne:

Science is a very difficult matter. Science is only suitable for strong minds.

Michel de Montaigne:

Science is a wonderful drug; but no drug is so stable that it can be preserved without being damaged or altered if the vessel in which it is stored is bad.

Michel de Montaigne:

Science is a great decoration and a very useful tool...

DI. Mendeleev:

Science begins as soon as they begin to measure. Exact science is unthinkable without measure.

DI. Mendeleev:

Science fights superstitions like light fights darkness.

M.V. Lomonosov :

Science is a clear knowledge of the truth, the enlightenment of the mind, the immaculate joy of life, the praise of youth, the support of old age, the builder of cities, regiments, the fortress of success in misfortune, in happiness - an adornment, everywhere a faithful and constant companion.

Leonardo da Vinci:

Science is the commander, and practice is his soldiers.

S.P. Kapitsa:

Attempts to frame the most significant achievements of science as someone else's discoveries are just a way to satisfy the vanity of their authors. In fact, these achievements belong to humanity as a whole.

Descartes:

The aim of scientific pursuits should be to direct the mind in such a way that it makes sound and true judgments about all objects encountered.

Aphorisms, quotes, phrases about science and technology

When people start thinking like robots, the robots end up performing even worse.
Artemy Lebedev "Kovodstvo"

Teapots are smart these days. Soon dogs will learn to walk.
Andrey Valentinov and Henry Lyon Oldie "Tirman"

The scientific method, despite all its shortcomings, is still the most reliable way to understand the world.
Declaration of Secular Humanism

The people who invent engines are not extinct yet.
Ayn Rand

Technologies! Now they connect people after being separated in different directions.
Harlan Coben

Modern technology not only depersonalizes people; it guts and turns them inside out, stripping them of the last vestiges of what was once called “private life.”
Harlan Coben

When robots do all the work for a person in the world, they will demand that a person at least not mutter under their arm.
Boris Krieger

Automation in the judicial process will lead to the fact that the judge, instead of banging a gavel, will press a button.
Boris Krieger

Buyers do not like automation in trading because, unlike the seller, it is difficult for the machine to fool its head.
Boris Krieger

Scientists will not save the world. They won't find right decisions, they can only point out Negative consequences wrong decisions.
Bernard Werber "Empire of Angels"

From time to time, science, along with God knows what discoveries, confirms at the level of the latest achievements what people have always known.
Mikhail Weller "Cassandra"

We, without realizing it, have given birth to a whole generation of devices that are already so perfect that they are about to start doing without us.
Boris Krieger "Maskin"

Computer science has given us the right to complete and safe delusions of grandeur.
Bernard Werber "Revolution of the Ants"

Modern technologies are making people increasingly weak-minded.
Vladimir Mikhailov

I admit that technology is more powerful and stronger than me: it works when it wants, and when it doesn’t want, then its owner better read the newspaper, take a walk, wait until the mood of the cables and telephone networks changes, and then it will work again. What kind of owner am I - she lives her own life.
P. Coelho

The point is not that amateurs can afford to stick their nose anywhere - they are simply obliged to stick their nose anywhere, and to hell with all the scientific fools who try to hide them in some tight stone bag.
John Fowles

It seems to me that science with its sobriety,
intelligence and gray hair
digs around in nature with impudent agility
boys who rummage through the clock.
Igor Guberman

Science is like time. She always goes forward and never back. Each new day brings a lot of unknowns and brings us closer to revealing the secrets of the universe. This is the essence of science. Perpetual motion- this is the key to success. Knowledge moves us, and we, in turn, control the minds of those around us through the means of science.
K. Thompson

No matter how many illusions enthusiasts of the scientific method create on this score, it has never been, never will be and cannot be the only method of cognition, nor the only method of mastering matter.
Daniil Andreev "Rose of the World"

Painstakingly accumulating facts, deducing certain patterns from them, not understanding either their nature or direction, but mastering them mechanically, and at the same time being unable to predict what inventions and social upheavals its discoveries will lead to - science has long been accessible to everyone , regardless moral character everyone. The results are before our eyes and above our heads. The main one is that not a single person on Earth is guaranteed that at any moment highly intelligent minds will not attack him or his fellow citizens. H-bomb or another, even more stunning achievement of science.
Daniil Andreev "Rose of the World"

Science is the best modern way satisfying the curiosity of individuals at the expense of the state.
L.A. Artsimovich

Only science will change the world. Science in a broad sense: how to split an atom, and how to raise children... And adults too.
Nikolay Amosov

For modern humanity, science has become an idol to which it is ready to make countless sacrifices, at least in words, and is even ready to sacrifice its dignity.
Nikolai Lossky

Human life is not eternal, but science and knowledge cross the threshold of centuries.
Igor Kurchatov

If a famous but old scientist claims that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. If he claims that something is impossible, he is very likely wrong.
Arthur Clarke

If an idea rejected by a famous but old scientist finds wide interest and warm support among the general (non-science) public, the famous but old scientist is definitely right.
Isaac Asimov

We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology, in which almost no one knows almost anything about science or technology.
Carl Sagan

One of the greatest disasters of civilization is the learned fool.
Karel Capek

When you are thirsty, it seems that you will drink the whole sea - this is faith; and when you start drinking, you’ll only manage two glasses at most—that’s science.
A.P.Chekhov

A theory is something that no one believes except its author. An experiment is something that everyone believes except its author.
A. Einstein

I want to know all the thoughts of God... and the rest is just minor details.
A. Einstein

No, this trick doesn't work... Well, how are you going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics such an important biological phenomenon as first love?
A. Einstein

If we knew exactly what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
A. Einstein

What cannot be expressed in numbers is not science, but just opinion.
R. Heinlein

Science gives man ever-increasing power over outside world, literature helps him put his inner world in order.
Andre Maurois

If the form of manifestation and the essence of things directly coincided, then all science would be superfluous.
Karl Marx

What is science today is technology tomorrow.
Edward Teller

Man has lost the ability to foresee and prevent. He will end up destroying the earth.
Albert Schweitzer

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men, but no machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard

All great discoveries are made by people whose feelings precede their thoughts.
Charles Parkhurst

If I managed to make any valuable discovery in my life, it was in to a greater extent through patience and attention than through any other talent.
Isaac Newton

Only those parts that are missing from the car do not wear out...
N.N. Smelyakov

The quantity and complexity of technology, lofty thoughts, wisdom, and erudition can pass for culture, but not for civilization. To become truly civilized, a society requires more than technical excellence and flight of thought.
Clifford Simak "Interchange Station"

The day will come when humanity will outsmart itself. The day will come when we will become mechanized to the point that there will be no place left for people on Earth, only for machines.
Clifford Simak

A common mistake of those who try to create something completely "foolproof" is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
D.Adams

Laziness is the mother of nine out of ten inventions.
Saunders

Our planet is too small for cars. In the end, people will live without moving, like plants.
Andre Maurois

Quotes from famous authors about science. Quotes from smart people about science and technology

Facts are to science what experience is to social life.

AND. Buffon

Science has its own specific logic of development, which is very important to take into account. Science must always work in reserve, for future use, and only under this condition will it be in natural conditions.

S. I. Vavilov

When science reaches any peak, it opens up a vast prospect of a further path to new heights, new roads open up along which science will go further.

S. I. Vavilov

You can't be a real mathematician without being a little poet.

K. Weierstrass

The time will come when science will outstrip imagination.

Jules Bern

A scientific hypothesis always goes beyond the facts that served as the basis for its construction.

V. I. Vernadsky

The scientific worldview, imbued with natural science and mathematics, is greatest power not only the present, but also the future.

V. I. Vernadsky

One minute is enough to be surprised; it takes many years to make an amazing thing,

I.Helvetius

There are no difficult sciences, there are only difficult expositions.

A. I. Herzen

Science is power; it reveals the relationships of things, their laws and interactions.

A. I. Herzen

Science requires the whole person, without ulterior motives, with a willingness to give everything and, as a reward, to receive the heavy cross of sober knowledge.

A. I. Herzen

In science there is no other way to acquire than by the sweat of your brow; neither impulses, nor fantasies, nor aspirations with all your heart replace work.

A. I. Herzen

A person must believe that the incomprehensible can be understood.

I. Goethe

For that, to Some science has moved forward in order for its expansion to become more perfect; hypotheses are necessary in the same way as evidence from experience and observation.

I. Goethe

What is in the air and what time requires can arise simultaneously in a hundred heads without any borrowing.

I. Goethe

Hypotheses- these are scaffoldings that are erected in front of a building and demolished when the building is ready; they are necessary for the employee; he should not just mistake the scaffolding for a building.

I. Goethe

Right the scientist is freedom, and his duty is truthfulness.

L. Girshfeld

In science you need to believe and doubt at the same time.

L. Girshfeld

Science is the knowledge of stupid other people's opinions.
Georg Lichtenberg

All science is prediction.
Herbert Spencer

Science is spectral analysis; art is a synthesis of light.
Karl Kraus (1874–1936), Austrian writer

What was an art that separated the smart from the stupid becomes a science that unites them.
Mikhail Gasparov (b. 1935), philologist

Science is often confused with knowledge. This is a gross misunderstanding. Science is not only knowledge, but also consciousness, that is, the ability to use knowledge properly.
Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841–1911), historian

Science is a belief in the ignorance of experts.
Richard Feynman (1918–1988), American physicist

Science begins with myths and with a critical attitude towards myths.
Karl Popper (1902–1994), Austrian-British philosopher

Science is always wrong. She is not able to solve a single question without raising a dozen new ones.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), English playwright

Science confirms our misconceptions.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909–1966), Polish poet and aphorist

Science does not answer all questions, even in an investigator's office.
Henryk Jagodzinski (b. 1928), Polish satirist

Science does not answer all questions, but it helps to understand the meaninglessness of many of them.
Henryk Jagodzinski

Science, like virtue, is its own reward.
Charles Kingsley (1819–1875), English writer

There can be no scientific morality; but in the same way there cannot be an immoral science.
Henri Poincaré (1854–1912), French mathematician and physicist

If curiosity concerns serious problems, it is already called a thirst for knowledge.
Maria Ebner Eschenbach (1830–1916), Austrian writer

Knowledge is one of the forms of asceticism.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher

To understand any science, you need to know the history of this science.
Auguste Comte (1798–1857), French philosopher

Scientific knowledge is not needed anywhere except science.
Cyril Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993), English essayist

Give a superstitious person science and he will turn it into superstition.
George Bernard Shaw

The bankruptcy of science is most often said by those who have not invested a penny in this enterprise.
Felix Chwalibug (1866–1930), Polish man of letters

The only thing my long life has taught me is that all our science, in the face of reality, looks primitive and childishly naive - and yet it is the most valuable thing we have.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955), German physicist

The less I believe in science, the more I fear it.
Jean Rostand (1894–1977), French biologist

The Church saves sinners, science is looking for ways to stop their production.
Elbert Hubbard (1859–1915), American writer

Science finds cures easier than answers.
Jean Rostand

Society can be divided into two parts: those who believe that science can do everything, and those who are afraid that it will be so.
Dixie Rae (1914–1994), American politician

As science increases our power, it decreases our pride in ourselves.
Claude Bernard (1813–1878), French physiologist

Science made us gods before we learned to be human.
Jean Rostand

It seems that things are heading towards the fact that Science will discover God. And I tremble in advance for his fate.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec

Science is a way of unraveling the mysteries of the world by discovering new mysteries.
A. Davidovich

Science is a drama of ideas.
A. Einstein

Science is a graveyard of hypotheses.
A. Poincare

Science is the systematic expansion of the field of human ignorance.
R. Gutovsky

Science is not and will never be a finished book. Every important success brings new questions. Every development reveals new and deeper difficulties over time.
A. Einstein

Science has conquered many diseases, cracked the genetic code and even allowed man to land on the moon, but when an eighteen-year-old man stays in the same room with two eighteen-year-old barmaids, nothing happens. Because the real problems are the same from century to century.
B. Allen

Science serves only to give us an idea of ​​the extent of our ignorance.
F. Lamennais

Just as for some science seems like a heavenly goddess, so for others it seems like a fat cow that gives them butter.
F. Schiller

Moving forward, science constantly crosses itself out.
V. Hugo

The most ardent defenders of science, who cannot bear even a slight sidelong glance at it, are usually those people who have achieved very little in science and who are aware of this shortcoming of theirs.
G. Lichtenberg

The key to all science is the question mark.
O. Balzac

It is not the truths of science that are difficult, but the clearing of human consciousness from all hereditary rubbish, all settled silt, from mistaking the unnatural for the natural, the incomprehensible for the understandable.
A. Herzen

An undoubted sign of true science is the awareness of the insignificance of what you know in comparison with what is revealed.
L. Tolstoy

The fruits of true science and true art are the fruits of sacrifice, not of material gain.
R. Rolland

All the power of science is aimed today at strengthening the State. Not a single scientist thought of using his knowledge to protect the individual. Here, perhaps, Freemasonry would be useful.
A. Camus

The living luminary of science is a learned man who has privatized a range of scientific problems and jealously protects them from the encroachment of those who see the solution to these problems differently.
V. Zubkov

Many discoveries in science are made by chance, but not by chance people.
author unknown

Astronomy grew out of superstition; eloquence - from ambition, hatred, flattery, lies; geometry - out of greed; physics - out of empty curiosity; all sciences, even morality itself, come from human pride.
J. J. Rousseau

Scientific work is when you read two books that no one has ever read in order to write a third book that no one will read.
Definition proposed by NASA employees

Basic scientific method- trial and error method.
author unknown

I lost interest in science books
Not because I became lazy;
Learning is too bitter,
And the fruit, as a rule, is wormy.
I. Tuberman

One small doubt: I am afraid that, while conquering new stars, man may lose the ground under his feet.
E. Lec

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“Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree, then fuck off...” - Richard Dawkins, English biologist.

Probably no one will argue with the fact that science is not only the engine of progress, but also one of the most beautiful and useful types of creativity for humanity. Each Scientific research- this is a process of creation, every scientist is a creator, rethinking and changing reality in his own way. Like all creative people, scientists know what inspiration is, how difficult it can sometimes be to find and preserve. But if they find it, then they are happy to share their wisdom with everyone - and this is truly gratifying.

On November 10, Science Day is celebrated all over the world. By this date website collected famous quotes great scientists, which we have gleaned from their works, letters, Nobel speeches and other sources.

Albert Einstein,
one of the most significant physicists of the 20th century, creator of the special and general theories of relativity, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1921).

• Theory is when everything is known, but nothing works. Practice is when everything works, but no one knows why. We combine theory and practice: nothing works... and no one knows why!
• We are all geniuses. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its entire life thinking it is stupid.
• If you can't explain something to a six-year-old child, you don't understand it yourself.
• Only a fool needs order - genius rules over chaos.
• There are only two ways to live life. The first is as if miracles do not exist. The second one is like there are only miracles all around.
• The only thing that prevents me from studying is the education I received.

Leonardo da Vinci,
Italian painter, sculptor, architect, scientist, engineer of the Renaissance.

• Anyone who wants to get rich in a day will be hanged within a year.
• Work on a work of art can never be completed, but can only be abandoned.
• An adversary who reveals your mistakes is more useful to you than a friend who wants to hide them.
• Experience flight once, and your eyes will forever be fixed on the sky. Once you have been there, you are doomed to yearn for it for the rest of your life.
• Where hope dies, emptiness arises.

Lev Landau,
Soviet theoretical physicist, founder scientific school, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, laureate Nobel Prize in physics (1962).

• The greatest achievement of human genius is that man can understand things that he can no longer imagine.
• You need to know English! Even the stupidest Englishmen know him well.
• Most terrible sin- this is to be bored! ...He'll come Last Judgment, the Lord God will call and ask: “Why didn’t you enjoy all the benefits of life? Why were you bored?
• Everyone has enough strength to live life with dignity. And all this talk about what a difficult time it is now is a clever way to justify one’s inaction, laziness and various despondencies. You have to work, and then, you see, times will change.

Nikola Tesla,
inventor in the field of electrical and radio engineering, engineer, physicist.

• Are you familiar with the expression “You can’t jump above your head”? It's a delusion. A person can do anything.
• The action of even the smallest creature leads to changes throughout the Universe.
• Modern scientists think deeply instead of thinking clearly. To think clearly, you need to have a sound mind, but you can think deeply even if you are completely crazy.

Niels Bohr,
Danish physicist and philosopher, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1922).

• There are such serious things in the world that one can only talk about them jokingly.
• An expert is a person who has done everything possible mistakes in a very narrow specialty.
• Your idea is, of course, crazy. The whole question is whether she is crazy enough to be true.

Unhappy are those people for whom everything is clear.

Sigmund Freud,
Austrian psychologist, psychiatrist and neurologist, author of the theory of psychoanalysis.

• Everything you do in bed is wonderful and absolutely right. As long as both of them like it. If there is this harmony, then you and only you are right, and everyone who condemns you is perverts.
• We do not choose each other by chance... We meet only those who already exist in our subconscious.
• All our actions are based on two motives: the desire to become great and sexual attraction.
• Every normal person in fact, only partly normal.