Science Quotes

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.

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.