„It is the great beauty of our science, chemistry, that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead of exhausting the subjects of research, opens the doors to further and more abundant knowledge, overflowing with beauty and utility.“

— Michael Faraday

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„If there is anything beautiful other than absolute beauty, that can only be beautiful as far as it partakes of absolute beauty—and this I should say of everything. …by beauty all things become beautiful. …by greatness only great things become great and greater and greater, and by smallness the less becomes less.“
— Socrates
„I am among those who think that science has great beauty.“
— Marie Curie
„There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.“
— Stephen King
„Most English-speaking people … will admit that cellar door is "beautiful," especially if dissociated from its sense (and from its spelling). More beautiful than, say, sky, and far more beautiful than beautiful…Well then, in Welsh, for me cellar doors are extraordinarily frequent, and moving to the higher dimension, the words in which there is pleasure in the contemplation of the association of form and sense are abundant.“
— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
„Science can only be comprehended epistemologically, which means as one category of possible knowledge, as long as knowledge is not equated either effusively with the absolute knowledge of a great philosophy or blindly with scientistic self-understanding of the actual business of research.“
— Jürgen Habermas
„There's a great and unutterable beauty in all this.“
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
„There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.“
— Ali
„Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.“
— John Dewey