Famous Science Quotes
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Man lives for science as well as bread.
Science is but an image of the truth.
The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Experience by itself is not science.
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
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 mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
