Quotes About Science

Science can only determine what is, but not what shall be, and beyond its realm, value judgements remain indispensable. Religion, on the other hand, is concerned only with evaluating human thought and actions; it is not qualified to speak of real facts and the relationships between them.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.

How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

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

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

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

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

Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man.

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

Gravitationis not responsible for people Gallo in love.

No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

The physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations for he himself knows best and feels most surely where the shoe pinches.... he must try to make clear in his own mind just how far the concepts which he uses are justified... The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.