Science Quotes
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Science is organized knowledge.
Reason, Observation, and Experience - the Holy Trinity of Science.
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.
Science is simply common sense at its best.
Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know.
Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope
Science is the desire to know causes.
The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
Science is the literature of truth.
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
The most incomprehensible thing about our universe is that it can be comprehended.
However far modern science and technics have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.
If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion.
I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‘But how can it be like that?’ Nobody knows how it can be like that.
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers.
Science is an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
