Quotes About Science

I breathe deeply, and certainty enters into me like light, like a piece of science, and curious music seems to hum inside my fingers. Is there a single person on whom I can press belief? No sir. All I can do is say, Here's how it went. Here's what I saw. I've been there and am going back. Make of it what you will.

Logos without nous: that is in a way what modern science wants to be. Nous without logos is mysticism.

most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.

theory produces a good deal but hardly brings us closer to the secret of the Old One. I am at all events convinced that He does not play dice.

It is always heartening when a fundamentalist of any religion professes a belief in evolution

Instead, like Heisenberg, his priority seemed to be to preserve as much of German science as possible, while complying with all Nazi laws and regulations.

Meanwhile, a serving of broccoli may contain sixty aphids and/or mites

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die

medieval scholars made surprising progress, despite living in an age in which people routinely judged the truth of statements not according to empirical evidence but by how well they fit into their preexisting system of religion-based beliefs—a culture that is inimical to science as we know it today.

other words, the movement of the dye molecule was virtually impossible to predict before the fact even though it was relatively easy to understand afterward.

Another recent work, an academic article that described research on a single type of nerve cell in the hypothalamus, was over one hundred pages long and cited seven hundred intricate experiments.

Cardano worked at a time when mystical incantation was more valued than mathematical calculation.

Let all the disciples of Aristotle…," he would write, "recognize that experiment is the true master who must be followed in Physics."6

wherever they looked, the chaos of life seemed to produce quantifiable and predictable patterns.

It is one thing to suspect that archers and astronomers, chemists and marketers, encounter the same error law; it is another to discover the specific form of that law.

This was the first scientific demonstration that the unconscious mind possesses knowledge that escapes the conscious mind.

Albert Einstein wrote, "One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness.… Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life in order to find in this way the peace and security which he cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

Science, indeed, is nothing more than the conceptual unravelling of sensory data; it has no other primary evidence from which to proceed.

To satisfy this need, one must recognize that philosophy is a system of ideas. By its nature as an integrating science, it cannot be a grab bag of isolated issues. All philosophic questions are interrelated. One may not, therefore, raise any such questions at random, without the requisite context. If one tries the random approach, then questions (which one has no means of answering) simply proliferate in all directions.

Visionaries are those in the field of art and science who recognize novel patterns. They see beauty before the rest of us do.

As science turns toward the realm of the Spirit to understand the physical universe, Space, Matter, Time are more prone to induce reverence than arrogance among scientists, who are sounding more like Isaiah in the temple than Isaac Newton under the apple tree.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments … Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass.