Science Quotes

"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."

"I am not interested in just physics, but in science as a whole, and in the impact of science on humanity."

"The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."

"The conservation of strangeness tells us something about the fundamental nature of reality."

"The great thing about science is that it works, regardless of whether you believe in it or not."

"The weak nuclear force is responsible for radioactivity and certain particle interactions."

"The quark is the smallest known unit of matter, yet infinite in its implications."

"The beauty of the scientific method is its humility in the face of nature."

"The universe is a far grander thing than we ordinarily imagine it to be."

"I would say that the universe has a very special role to play in the theory of quantum mechanics."

"Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe."

"Physics is simply trying to understand reality."

"The universe operates on principles we are only beginning to comprehend."

"The universe is stranger than fiction."

"The universe has a profound elegance to it."

"The universe rewards those who seek truth with elegant solutions."

"The laws of nature are written in the language of geometry."

"The universe is fundamentally rational yet wonderfully mysterious."

"Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense."

"It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that quantum theory is so counter-intuitive that if you haven't been profoundly shocked by it, you haven't understood it."

"No phenomenon is a phenomenon until it is a registered phenomenon."

"Nature isn't classical, dammit, if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical."

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science is not Eureka but That's funny."

"Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity."

"How could the photon be a quantum particle?"

"Gravitation is the most mysterious phenomenon in nature."

"We choose to examine the many-worlds interpretation."

"The Planck scale is the natural arena for quantum gravity."

"Reality is created by the act of observation."

"Gravitation is not a force but a curvature of spacetime."