Science Quotes
I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
The doubter is a true man of science; he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stone, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house, and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.
Science is an integral part of culture. It’s not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It’s one of the glories of human intellectual tradition.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Science is a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Science is the labor and handicraft of the mind.
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
Science is simply common sense at its best that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Science helps us before all things in this, that it somewhat lightens the feeling of wonder with which Nature fills us; then, however, as life becomes more and more complex, it creates new facilities for the avoidance of what would do us harm and the promotion of what will do us good.
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it is tied to everything else in the universe.
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.