Quotes About Science

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

Charlotte's Web Life is magic, the way nature works seems to be quite magical.

The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.

Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as the physical laws.

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.

The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical condition.

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.

His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound.

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

No matter how we may single out a complex from nature...its theoretical treatment will never prove to be ultimately conclusive... I believe that this process of deepening of theory has no limits.

The goal of physiological research is functional nature.

The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

Teens are by nature, experimental learners. There is no real understanding of biology without the lab.

One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this language is mathematics and these signs are methematical figures.

Every realm of nature is marvelous.

The study of nature is a limitless field, the most fascinating adventure in the world.

Science must acknowledge truthfully how much it doesn't know and leave room for mystery, miracles, and the wisdom of nature.

That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.