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The great science minds of history have provided inspirational quotes on their findings, philosophy, and understanding of the world around us. 20 Inspirational Quotes From Famous Scientists <\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These quotes have inspired generations of young explorers, eager to learn more about the world and motivated toward betterment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you need a bit more motivation than normal we have all that you need. From Einstein to Newton to Galileo, the great minds of science touch on all you need to inspire you to achieve more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


To inspire is to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scientists below have left an invaluable influence on the trajectory of my life and career. Some quotes I have read over and over throughout my adult life and each time they impart a fuller sense of meaning and understanding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are the quotes worth exalting, these are the quotes worth remembering. 20 Inspirational Quotes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inspirational Quotes From Inspirational Scientists<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n


We are in many ways unimaginably small within this universe, yet uniquely special. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have the power to go to space, are self aware, and masters of our own destiny. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet we are on a small planet circling a very average star, spiraling around a massive galaxy of hundreds of billions of stars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That galaxy, on top of that, is just one of billions of galaxies. Yet we are alive today, and that is a gift no one can undervalue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientists are an interesting breed of people, they are creative, adventurers, critical, and pragmatic. This may not be the initial subset of people you would look to for inspiration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, think for an instance of the motivation required to tackle the great intellectual challenges of our time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientists are driven by constant curiosity and inspired to find truth. 20 Inspirational Quotes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.<\/em> <\/p>\u2013 Isaac Newton<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n


The Isaac Newton (1642 \u2013 1727) quote above, from Memoirs of the Life, Writing, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton<\/a> (1885) by Sir David Brewster speaks to the depth of what we have left to discover. This world is grand and there lies an ocean of undiscovered findings that are waiting for eager and curious minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I\u2019m not sure about the universe.<\/em><\/p>– Albert Einstein<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This quote, first appearing in Ego, Hunger, and Aggression: a Revision of Freud\u2019s Theory and Method by Frederick S. Perls. Einstein (1879 \u2013 1955) is known to have clashed with popular thinking and the limited imagination of fellow scientists and the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

20 Inspirational Quotes From Famous Scientists<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life cannot have had a random beginning \u2026 <\/em><\/p>

The trouble is that there are about 2000 enzymes, and the chance of btaining them all in a random trial is only one part in 10^40,000, an outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup. <\/em><\/p>– Fred Hoyle<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sir Fred Hoyle (1915 \u2013 2001), an astronomer, was known for controversial stances on scientific matters and contribution to stellar nucleosynthesis. He often rejected the Big Bang Theory and instead favored a steady state university theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, <\/em><\/p>

which later appear so easy and simple. <\/em><\/p>– Georg C. Lichtenberg<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Georg Lichtenberg (1742 \u2013 1799) was a German experimental physicist known for satire. Science is built upon previous knowledge, which is incredible that what is now common sense mathematics was once never before discovered or thought of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There may be babblers, wholly ignorant of mathematics, <\/em>
who dare to condemn my hypothesis, upon the authority of some part of the Bible twisted to suit their purpose.<\/p>

I value them not and scorn their unfounded judgment.<\/em><\/p>\u2013 Nicolaus Copernicus<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n


Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 \u2013 1543) was a Polish renaissance mathematician and astronomer known for proposing that the Sun, in fact, is the center of the universe. Nicolaus\u2019 inspirational quote is ripe with anger and condemnation. This reminds us that religion and science have always lived in parallel, sometimes symbiotically, sometimes not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no law except the law that there is no law. <\/em><\/p>– John Archibald Wheeler<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

John Archibald Wheeler (1911 \u2013 2008) was an American theoretical physicist largely credited for reviving dialogue in general relativity. Here, John Wheeler reminds us that in nature and human imagination, anything is possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.<\/em>– Stephen Jay Gould<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Jay Gould (1941 \u2013 2002) was an American paleontologist and an expert in evolutionary biology. Dr. Gould developed the theory of punctuated equilibrium, whereby long periods of stability are punctuated by rare occurrences of branching evolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Falsity in intellectual action is intellectual immorality. <\/em><\/p>– Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Thomas Chamberlin\u2019s inspirational quote above was given during the 1888 University of Michigan Annual Commencement. Thomas Chamberlin (1843 \u2013 1928) was an influential geologist who founded the Journal of Geology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time. <\/em><\/p>– Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n


This quote from Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910 \u2013 1995) appears in his book Mathematical Theory of Black Hole. Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist and awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983 for his mathematical theory on the structure and evolution of stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The saddest aspect of life right now is that gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.<\/em><\/p>\u2015 Isaac Asimov<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n


Isaac Asimov (1920 \u2013 1992) was an American biochemist and author. Asimov was a prolific science fiction and popular science writer. Here Asimov speaks to the limitations of wisdom in our society and our valuation of information over understanding. Asimov\u2019s quote is as timely today as it ever was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. <\/em><\/p>\u2015 Albert Einstein<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n


Here, we have Einstein\u2019s (1879 \u2013 1955) iconic quote about the relationship between religion and science. Perfectly concise yet powerfully motivational. Much of science is not devoid of religion and the sense of purpose it imparts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

20 Inspirational Quotes From Famous Scientists <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. <\/em>\u2015 Charles Darwin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n


Charles Darwin (1809 \u2013 1882) was a naturalist and geologist who pioneered the field of evolutionary biology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Want to accomplish as much as Darwin did in his lifetime, adhere to his advice and don\u2019t waste one single hour of your time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The good thing about science is that it\u2019s true whether or not you believe in it. <\/em><\/p>\u2015 Neil deGrasse Tyson<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n


Neil deGrasse Tyson\u2019s (1958 \u2013 present) quote from The Colbert Report distinguishes the difference between opinion and fact. Science, as a base, is always true, it is an interpretation that imparts human error. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether you believe in science or not is irrelevant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. <\/em><\/p>

Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. <\/em><\/p>\u2015 Marie Curie<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Marie Curie (1867 \u2013 1934) was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize in 1903 for her contributions to physics. She was again awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize for her contributions to chemistry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although we may fear the unknown, it should not limit our desire to understand the unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.<\/em><\/p>– Galileo<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Galileo Galilei (1564 \u2013 1642) was an Italian astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. Galileo\u2019s quote is one echoed for generations that one must learn something for themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your mom may have told you the burner was hot as a kid but you eventually tested it for yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagination is more important than knowledge. <\/em><\/p>– Albert Einstein<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n


Albert Einstein (1879 \u2013 1955) appears again in his 1929 interview with The Saturday Evening Post. The full quote reads \u201cI am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?<\/em> <\/p>\u2013 Oliver Heaviside<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n


Oliver Heaviside (1850 \u2013 1925) was an English mathematician and physicist working primarily in the electrical engineering field. The quote above is in reference to Heaviside using mathematical operators that were not yet clearly defined by the mathematics community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. <\/em>\u2015 Isaac Newton<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n


Sir Isaac Newton (1642 \u2013 1727) wrote the quote above in his letter to rival Robert Hooke in 1676. Nothing is done in a vacuum, we must all stand on our forefathers to better ourselves and the world around us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tackling the challenges of the world today will require that more than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Equipped with his five senses, <\/em><\/p>

man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.<\/em><\/p>

<\/em>– Edwin Powell Hubble<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Edwin Hubble (1889 \u2013 1953) was an American astronomer known for his significant contribution to astronomy including Hubble\u2019s Law. Hubble is known and regarded as one of the most influential observational cosmologists within the 20th century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This inspirational quote <\/a>delivers the sense of adventure that even scientist seeks, and adventure of the mind. Questions and curiosity become scientific pursuits of the mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. <\/em><\/p>

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life are empty without it. <\/em><\/p>

Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there, and don\u2019t throw it away.<\/em><\/p>\u2015 Stephen Hawking<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Hawking (1942 \u2013 present) gave this piece of advice to his children during a June 2010 interview with Diane Sawyer<\/a> on ABC News. In many ways, this quote by one of my heroes has sculpted my life. I\u2019ll always remember to look at the stars, continue to fill my life with valuable work, and love my wife. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Hawking has ALS, which has gradually left Hawking paralyzed through decades. He is bound to a wheelchair and communicates using a speech device relying on Hawking\u2019s cheek muscle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Inspirational Book<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re not inspired out and you haven\u2019t yet read The Power Of Positive Thinking<\/a>, I highly recommend purchasing it or getting a copy from your local library. This self-help book by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale was published in 2003 and profoundly impacted my life, goals, and outlook of my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Peale does rely on religious-based practices, you do not have to be religious to employ the same strategy. Alter the strategy to fit who you are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book discusses channeling positive thought and action and not letting negativity and cynicism get in the way. If you find yourself overwhelmed by situations that are present every day, this book allows for positive thinking to defeat negative thoughts and help you aspire to the goals you set forth for yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No one owns your mood or thoughts beyond you, this book teaches you how to take control of how situations and people affect your mood. If you do not allow your outlook to be affected by others, you can focus on positive thoughts<\/a> and your goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book has brought many dedicated believers and has transformed many people\u2019s lives. If you\u2019re looking for inspiration and motivation, the first thing to do in my opinion is to quell doubt and cynicism. Let me know in the comments below if you have other books you enjoy that have impacted you. It helps to hear what other people found helpful and what the people use in their daily life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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