Science Quotes

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

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.