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 is a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

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.

Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things.

Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope

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.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

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.

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.

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

Science is the literature of truth.

Reason, Observation, and Experience - the Holy Trinity of Science.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

Science is the desire to know causes.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Science is organized knowledge.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.

Science is an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery.

However far modern science and technics have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

The doubter is a true man of science; he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

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.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

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.