Science Quotes
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"No phenomenon is a phenomenon until it is a registered phenomenon."John Wheeler
"Information is the foundation of all physical law."John Wheeler
"Physics isn't real; mathematics is real."John Wheeler
"Relativity and quantum mechanics challenge our deepest assumptions about reality."John Wheeler
"Simplicity is the final sophistication of scientific thought."John Wheeler
"The role of the physicist is to understand, not to judge."John Wheeler
"Complexity emerges from simplicity through iteration."John Wheeler
"The quantum world teaches us that observation matters."John Wheeler
"The power of science lies in its willingness to be wrong."John Wheeler
"The measure of a good theory is its beauty."John Wheeler
"The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space."Arno Penzias
"Science is not only a disciple of reason but also of romance and passion."Arno Penzias
"There is a limit to how much bad science you can do."Arno Penzias
"The truth is that science is not bound by the laws of nature; rather, it is the study of them."Arno Penzias
"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."Arno Penzias
"Science is the systematic enterprise of gathering knowledge about the world and organizing that knowledge into testable laws."Arno Penzias
"Science is not a body of facts but a body of methods."Arno Penzias
"I'm an ardent believer in the scientific method."Arno Penzias
"The beauty of science is that it allows us to understand our place in the universe."Arno Penzias
"The Cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be."Arno Penzias
"We are a way the universe understands itself."Arno Penzias
"Every scientific fact is also a kind of poetry."Arno Penzias
"Science is nothing more than organized common sense."Arno Penzias
"The universe operates according to rational principles."Arno Penzias
"Science is the best tool we have for understanding reality."Arno Penzias
"The greatest discoveries come from simple observations."Arno Penzias
"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."Murray Gell-Mann
"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."Murray Gell-Mann
"In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself – nature does it for you."Murray Gell-Mann
"Reductionism is a useful tool, but not the whole story of how nature works."Murray Gell-Mann
