Science Quotes

"Science advances when we question our most basic assumptions."

"Scientific progress is incremental, building on the discoveries of predecessors."

"Science thrives on the tension between observation and theory."

"True progress requires both scientific understanding of society and ethical commitment to justice."

"Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none."

"Scientific revolutions are not cumulative but rather create new worlds."

"Science operates within a paradigm until that paradigm breaks down."

"Scientists are not objective observers but participants in their discoveries."

"Normal science and revolutionary science are fundamentally different activities."

"The paradigm determines what counts as a valid scientific problem."

"Science cannot be reduced to a set of logical rules."

"Science operates within paradigms, not above them."

"The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts with the runway of everyday experience."

"The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error."

"The perception of matter in space is the origin of all real knowledge."

"Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification."

"I have never been a scientist in the usual sense, but I have been interested in questions."

"The beginning of all science is wonder."

"Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory."

"Science is not sacred."

"Science is not a collection of laws, a catalogue of unrelated items, but an interpretation of nature in terms of causes that matter to us."

"The best scientists are those willing to break their own rules."

"The scientist who is certain has stopped being a scientist."

"Culture shapes science as much as science shapes culture."

"The universe is indifferent to our theories about it."

"What appears chaotic may be following rules we have not yet recognized."

"Our theories shape what we can perceive in the world."

"Science advances not by revelation but by pragmatic revision."

"The mind interprets sensory data through conceptual schemes."

"Mathematics is indispensable to science, yet paradoxical in nature."