Quotes on Great Science

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.