Quotes About Science

There are valleys that lead to the bottom of the world, so it seems, but what world is that? The universe has no sides, no end, can't be mapped. Enough to make a man talk about God, make a man superstitious and worship an idol. The science never gets as far as the strangeness. The more sophisticated my equipment, the stranger the worlds it detects. I sometimes think I'm sailing through a vast thought.

There is a further trouble; no matter how meticulous the scientist, he or she cannot be separated from the experiment itself. Impossible to detach the observer from the observed. A great deal of scientific truth has later turned out to be its observer's fiction. It is irrational to assume that this is no longer the case.

There is a spontaneous round of applause in the hall... Victor looks unhappy. He wouldn't call it unhappy, he would call it misunderstood. He waits... Then he does one of the things he does so well -- heads out of the sciences and into the arts: To name things wrongly is to add to the misfortune of the world.

The true nature of the world is energy not mass.

There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn't.

Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with difficulty.

If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned - the latter would be quite small in comparison with the former. But we are hardly aware of what is generally attained, because it is attained without thought and even before the age of reason; because, moreover, learning is noticed only by its differences, and as in algebraic equations, common quantities count for nothing.

Un día tomé el Mercurio de Francia, y andando y leyendo encontré este tema propuesto por la Academia de Dijon para el premio del siguiente año: El progreso de las ciencias y de las artes ¿ha contribuido a corromper o a purificar las costumbres? Así

mi trabajo desigual y sin arte tan pronto era sublime como trivial, como debe serio el de cualquiera que sólo posee arranques de genio y no se halla sostenido por la ciencia.

Fabrikalar, k?rsal alan? mahvediyordu ve büyükbabam, soyut bilimlerde yaln?zca soyutluÄŸu seviyordu.

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl up on the accelerator floor for an hour.

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.

The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them.

The biggest misconception usually is to assume that I am a scientist and that I work for scientists. I work for the public to access the surreal and fantastical in science.

To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.

It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.

For those who wish to stay and work in computer science or technology, fields badly in need of their services, let's roll out the welcome mat.

All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.

The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.