Science Quotes

"The relationship between theory and observation is more complex than we admit."

"The universe does not care about our theories; we must care about its reality."

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

"Common sense tells us that our existence is not the only fact we know. We know that there are laws of nature, roughly speaking, and that we are able to discover them."

"A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific."

"To be a scientist you must have a taste for both rationality and objectivity, combined with imagination."

"Science is not authority. Science is a process of learning about nature that is open to criticism and revision."

"The task of the science of logic is the analysis of the method of science."

"The task of science is not to provide certainty but to reduce uncertainty through better understanding."

"The greatest discovery is understanding human nature."

"Science is the systematic pursuit of understanding reality."

"Every statement can be translated into a statement about sensory events."

"Contradiction cannot be tolerated in any scientific system."

"The apparent objectivity of scientific discourse masks its conventional foundations."

"The boundary between science and non-science is blurred."

"Abstract objects exist because we need them for our theories."

"Logic is not a constraint on reality; it is a constraint on coherent discourse."

"Mathematics is not about abstract entities but about manipulating symbols."

"Science progresses not through accumulation but through conceptual reorganization."

"We accept into our ontology whatever our best scientific theories require us to accept."

"Science is continuous with common sense but more systematic and comprehensive."

"Reductionism is a methodological ideal, not a metaphysical thesis."

"Science aims not at truth in any absolute sense but at systematization and prediction."

"What we accept as real depends on what our best theories tell us."

"Logic is not descriptive but prescriptive; it tells us how we should think."

"The existence of paradigm debates is not really surprising, except for the fact that, throughout the history of the physical sciences, paradigm debates have again and again been resolved not by proof but by a gradually conversion of the entire profession."

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

"Scientific revolutions need not seem revolutions only after the fact."

"Anomalies have always been recognized since earliest antiquity."

"The study of paradigms is what mainly prepares the student for membership in the particular scientific community."