Quotes on Science Life

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

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

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.

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

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.