85 Movie Quotes about Science (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

Updated: May 21, 2026

Memorable quotes about science, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

41 Phooey with science. It doesn't work.

John Byner as The Ant And The Aardvark in The Ant and the Aardvark (1969)

42 I feel like I've been cooped up inside this lab for ever. -Well, it is an opportunity to spread your legs. Good to smell the breezes, hm?

Fisher Stevens as Ben Jabituya; Steve Guttenberg as Newton Crosby in Short Circuit (1986)

43 Great scientific advances are oftentimes sudden-accomplished facts before most of us are even dimly aware of them. Breathtakingly unexpected, for example, was the searing flash that announced the atomic age.

Quote from 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)

44 I've been looking for a suitable replacement for palladium. I've tried every combination, every permutation of every known element. -Well, I'm here to tell you, you haven't tried them all.

Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury; Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark Iron Man in Iron Man 2

45 Scientist? I run a few guns. You sons of bitches ruined the world.

Ernie Hudson as Captain Monroe Kelly in Congo (1995)

46 And you? You died for nothing. Oh, the sacrifices we must make for science.

Quote from Darkwing Duck (1991)

47 Now me and the mad scientist gotta rip apart the block and replace the piston rings you fried.

Quote from The Fast and the Furious

48 I don't believe in God, I believe in science.

Esqueleto in Nacho Libre

49 He was on to something big, something so big that it was gonna make the nuclear reactor look like a triple-A battery.

Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury in Iron Man 2

50 The science is impossible.

Quote from Megamind (2010)