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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
- Albert Einstein

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Physicists

Physics
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
- Albert Einstein
Physics
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
- Isaac Newton
Physics
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
- Albert Einstein
Physics
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
- Albert Einstein
Physics
"The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine."
- J.B.S. Haldane
Physics
"God does not play dice with the universe."
- Albert Einstein

Biologists

Biology
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change."
- Charles Darwin
Biology
"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution."
- Theodosius Dobzhansky
Biology
"The double helix structure of DNA was too pretty not to be true."
- Francis Crick
Biology
"We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes."
- Richard Dawkins
Biology
"The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts."
- Paul Ehrlich
Biology
"The cell is the fundamental unit of life."
- Theodor Schwann

Chemists

Chemistry
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
- Marie Curie
Chemistry
"In nature, nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything changes."
- Antoine Lavoisier
Chemistry
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"
- Isaac Asimov
Chemistry
"Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it."
- Adam Sandler
Chemistry
"The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Chemistry
"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson

Mathematicians

Mathematics
"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."
- Albert Einstein
Mathematics
"Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe."
- Galileo Galilei
Mathematics
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
- Albert Einstein
Mathematics
"The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple."
- S. Gudder
Mathematics
"Mathematics is the music of reason."
- James Joseph Sylvester
Mathematics
"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."
- Charles Caleb Colton

Astronomers

Astronomy
"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."
- Carl Sagan
Astronomy
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
- Carl Sagan
Astronomy
"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astronomy
"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astronomy
"The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space."
- Carl Sagan
Astronomy
"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."
- Carl Sagan

Inventors

Invention
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Edison
Invention
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"
- Isaac Asimov
Invention
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
- Alan Kay
Invention
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
- Thomas Edison
Invention
"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow."
- Edward Teller
Invention
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
- Marie Curie

Science Philosophers

Philosophy
"Science is not only a disciple of reason but also one of romance and passion."
- Stephen Hawking
Philosophy
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
- Stephen Hawking
Philosophy
"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
Philosophy
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
- Isaac Asimov
Philosophy
"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."
- Carl Sagan
Philosophy
"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson