Quotes About Science

Bodies fall towards the earth as it is in the nature of the earth to attract bodies, just as it is in the nature of water to flow.

Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.

The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.

The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.

The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.

Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.

String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect.

Evolution, as a mechanism, can be and must be true. But that says nothing about the nature of its author. For those who believe in God, there are reasons now to be more in awe, not less.

Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine

My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents: the facts of experience.

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

Nature itself cannot err

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearly!

Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

Study nature not books

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

There is no debate in the scientific community...We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.

Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.