68 Best Science Quotes

We're in a desperate race, not against the Germans, but against reality. – J. Robert Oppenheimer

We're not just building a weapon. We're building a theory of the universe. – J. Robert Oppenheimer

When you've come that far, you can't just stop. – J. Robert Oppenheimer

What is a tangent universe? – Donnie Darko

The manipulation of liquid water is a key element in many weather control systems. – Donnie Darko

The power of the sun, in the palm of my hand. – Doctor Octopus

I'm not gonna be remembered as the man who invented the finglonger! A device which lets you... FING... LONGER... – Dr. Aloysius Pines "Ford"

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice. – Richard Dawkins

Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose. – Richard Dawkins

Science is the poetry of reality. – Richard Dawkins

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. – Richard Dawkins

The selfish gene is not a single physical entity but a gene complex that works as a unit. – Richard Dawkins

There is a child-like hunger for explanation, and it's a hunger that science is uniquely equipped to satisfy. – Richard Dawkins

I am a Darwinist because I believe the only alternatives are Lamarckism or God, neither of which does the job as an explanatory principle. – Richard Dawkins

Time and again, religion has acted as a barrier to the advance of science. – Richard Dawkins

You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle would be thrilled, I think, to learn the true explanation of the rainbow. – Richard Dawkins

The God Hypothesis is a scientific hypothesis about the universe, which should be analyzed as skeptically as any other. – Richard Dawkins

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. – Stanley Kubrick