Quotes About Insight

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

By far the best proof is experience.

Science is the only true guide in life.

Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and say that we are made in such a way as to be able to understand Nature.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

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.

Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.

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

Experience alone can decide on truth.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

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

Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

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

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

I still hear some people say that science takes the wonder out of life. Those people are utterly wrong. Science takes us to the wonder

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.