Quotes on Science

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.

If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not all that important in the greater scheme of things.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it