Quotes About Science

Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even if it is not straightforwardly reducible to it.

When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.

There is no place in nature for extinction.

Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it.'

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.

There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties. . .

One can never study nature too much and too hard

Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.

Nature must be interpreted as matter, energy, and information

The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.

Nature abhors the vacuum tube.

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature.

Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature.

There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.

Research, in nature's laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied.

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.

One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

Water is the driving force in nature.

Men argue nature acts.

God is the set of all the laws of nature.