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Science Quotes

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.


Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.


To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.


The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.


The man of science is a poor philosopher.


I have just got a new theory of eternity.


It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.


There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.


I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.


The faster you go, the shorter you are.


Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.


Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.


I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.


If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.


When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.