Quotes About Reflection

Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation

I wrote a great deal during the next ten [early] years,but very little of any importance; there are not more than four or five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.

A busy life is a wasted life.

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

I try to identify myself with the atoms ... I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.

Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.

Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.

The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, "This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?

I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.