Science Quotes

"Scientific progress is not evolutionary, it is revolutionary in nature."

"The older a science, the more abstract its laws and the more formal its expression become."

"Incompleteness as a feature of scientific theories is not a defect but a necessity."

"Scientific communities are coherent partly because of shared values, which both permit and require a discipline."

"Science progresses through revolutions, not through accumulation."

"The world of the scientist is not the same as the world of the ordinary man."

"Normal science is cumulative, but revolutions are not."

"The values of a scientific community shape its choice of paradigm."

"The scientist's world becomes different when his paradigm changes."

"The crisis in physics at the turn of the twentieth century was resolved by Einstein's paradigm shift."

"Scientists accumulate knowledge like bricks in a wall, but sometimes the entire wall must be rebuilt."

"The paradigm provides both the puzzles and the rules for solving them."

"A paradigm is not merely a set of theories, but a way of seeing the world."

"Science progresses through the replacement of one paradigm with another, not through the accumulation of facts."

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

"A man of science is a creature who abandons certainty."

"There is a paradox at the heart of every science."

"The poetry of mathematics is the most romantic of all poems."

"The universe reveals itself through the questions we ask of it."

"Language provides the framework within which we understand reality itself."

"The structure of language mirrors the structure of thought."

"Language reveals the assumptions embedded in our culture."

"The study of language reveals universal principles of human cognition."

"The greatest discoveries come from patient observation of the ordinary."

"The mind works through structural patterns we rarely consciously recognize."

"Science seeks the principles underlying apparent disorder."

"Science is not a collection of laws, a catalogue of unrelated items. It is a creation of the human mind, with its freely invented ideas and concepts."

"The universe does not care about our theories; we must care about understanding the universe."

"Science progresses not through accumulation of facts but through revolutionary changes in perspective."

"The scientific establishment frequently resists new ideas that threaten its authority."