Science Quotes
Everything in nature is a puzzle until it finds its solution in man, who solves it in some way with God, and so completes the circle of creation.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
A scientific or technical study always consists of the following three steps: 1. One decides the objective. 2. One considers the method. 3. One evaluates the method in relation to the objective.
If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted
...science is confirming what we know in our hearts: that, as psychiatrist James Gordon put it," massage is medicine."
Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition
In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.
The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.
If this is how science operates, by silencing those who express opposing views rather than by debating with them, then science is dead and we are in a new era of the Inquisition.
Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles, no laws; and without these no science can exist.
Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.
To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought, a pleasure that gladdens the heart.
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it was mine.
If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.
One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass.
