Quotes on Science

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

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