Quotes About Science

It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.

I cannot conceive of a great scientist without this profound faith: Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.

Il est plus facile de désintégrer un atome qu'un préjugé

The theory must not contradict empirical facts

No man or Genie on earth had created anything, we merely assembled God's Atoms, by learning it's properties, with his aid, so if anyone said that we had invented anything - he had Invented a lie; an unwise man.... thinks we have created an atom.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us

You make experiments and I make theories. Do you know the difference? A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. { Remark to scientist Herman Francis Mark }

Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

It is the theory which decides what can be observed

Science has therefore been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Spooky action at a distance.

The greatest scientists are artists as well.

If something is in me which can be called religious, then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility… The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit requires a freedom that consists in the independence of thought from the restrictions of authoritarian and social prejudice.

Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.