Quotes on Science

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.

In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

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.

You have ... been told that science grows like an organism. You have been told that, if we today see further than our predecessors, it is only because we stand on their shoulders. But this [Nobel Prize Presentation] is an occasion on which I should prefer to remember, not the giants upon whose shoulders we stood, but the friends with whom we stood arm in arm ... colleagues in so much of my work.