Quotes About Science

It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames.

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind.

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.

The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.

I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature

Light may be shed on man and his origins.

To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, its only because we havent been able to understand it yet.

Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.

I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.

The day that you stop looking - because you're content God did it - I don't need you in the lab. You're useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.

Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.

How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.

As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact with nature.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.

Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.

Prayer never changes the laws of nature.

I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.

Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.

Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.