Science Quotes

Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious ... of being relegated to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge.

Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together... perceptible phenomena... through systematic thought.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

I want to know all God's thoughts; all the rest are just details.

God always takes the simplest way.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.