Science Quotes

"Understanding life requires seeing beyond the surface to the organizing principles beneath."

"The study of animals reveals the mind of the creator."

"Systematic observation is the only compass in the wilderness of natural phenomena."

"Scientific knowledge grows through the accumulation of careful observations."

"To study nature is to study the workings of supreme intelligence."

"To understand life, one must understand the principles of structure."

"In the similarity of structures, we glimpse the common ancestry of life."

"The comparative method is nature's own way of teaching us her secrets."

"Systematic study of nature reveals an order that transcends human imagination."

"The study of comparative anatomy is the study of life itself in all its manifestations."

"Classification is the key to understanding the universe."

"Science is the systematic pursuit of natural truth."

"The great tragedy of Science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."

"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the method of Evolution."

"Mathematics is the language in which God wrote the world."

"My books are intended to make it clear that whatever may be true of the details, the broad facts of the life story of the earth are firm."

"Man is capable of understanding the whole of nature's laws."

"The greatest tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."

"True science is not cold and analytical; it is warm with the love of truth."

"The universe has no beginning and no end; it is eternal."

"The nature of things is to be found in the observation of things themselves."

"The brain is the sole seat of the mind."

"The glory of science is in the pursuit, not in the possession of truth."

"Behind every statement of fact lies a hypothesis waiting to be tested."

"In studying the bones of ancient creatures, we read the autobiography of creation."

"Structure and function are the twin pillars upon which all biology stands."

"In fossil beds lies written the epic of earthly creation."

"Nature's forms follow functions we are only beginning to comprehend."

"To examine a bone is to read a page from creation's book."

"The fossil record proves that all life is connected across the ages."