Science Quotes
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability.
Certain it is that a conviction, akin to religious feeling, of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a higher order.
But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding
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.
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