Science Quotes
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Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.
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Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.
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I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.
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Whenever we think we have final answers progress, science, and better understanding ceases.
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No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
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In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
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The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.
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Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for the dangers of the infinite.
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Science is practical philosophy.
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Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.
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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.
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God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.
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In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.
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If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is what research does; it smooths out contradictions and makes things simple, logical, and coherent.
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I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies.
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I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out of immensity. I would not have that gift expire... If I seem to be beating a dead horse again and again, I must protest: No! I am beating, again and again, living man to keep him awake and move his limbs and jump his mind... What's the use of looking at Mars through a telescope, sitting on panels, writing books, if it isn't to guarantee, not just the survival of mankind, but mankind surviving forever!
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I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.
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Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a spirit or soul might be just another great falsity.
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It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along the way. That will not stand.
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We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
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[Science is] the desire to know causes.
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The work I have done has, already, been adequately rewarded and recognized. Imagination reaches out repeatedly trying to achieve some higher level of understanding, until suddenly I find myself momentarily alone before one new corner of nature's pattern of beauty and true majesty revealed. That was my reward.
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What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of chemical philosophy'), and this proved so rapidly fruitful that only a few of the older chemists in France and Britain were able to resist it.
