Science Quotes

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"Proof is the soul of mathematics and the gateway to certainty."
Euclid
"To measure is to understand; to understand is to measure."
Euclid
"All quantities can be expressed through geometric relationships."
Euclid
"Area and volume are the languages of space itself."
Euclid
"Every surface can be mapped; every space can be measured."
Euclid
P
"The laws of nature are written in the language of mathematics."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
J
"The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God, and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics."
Johannes Kepler
J
"Where there is matter, there is geometry."
Johannes Kepler
J
"The sun is the center of the universe, and all planets orbit around it in perfect mathematical harmony."
Johannes Kepler
J
"The resistance to a ship's advance through the water is as the square of the velocity."
Johannes Kepler
J
"What is this force by which the sun holds the planets in the bonds of its embrace?"
Johannes Kepler
J
"Things are numbers is a saying old in date and new in fashion."
Johannes Kepler
J
"Among all the sciences that seek to understand nature, astronomy is the one that lifts the human mind most powerfully to the contemplation of the divine."
Johannes Kepler
J
"Small portions of the celestial fires, which become visible to us when they fall from the outer heaven into our atmosphere, are called falling stars."
Johannes Kepler
J
"The moving power is the sun; the moving body is the planet."
Johannes Kepler
J
"There is a single arithmetic, geometry, and proportionality that is common to all nature."
Johannes Kepler
J
"Each planet moves with a speed that is inversely proportional to its distance from the sun."
Johannes Kepler
J
"The sun is the only source of heat and light in the universe."
Johannes Kepler
L
"It is impossible not to be awed by the numbers; they constitute the greatest triumph of human reason."
Leonhard Euler
L
"The magnificent thing about science is that it continues to evolve with our understanding."
Leonhard Euler
L
"Science is organized knowledge; wisdom is organized understanding."
Leonhard Euler
P
"The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to the strangeness of the act reported."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
P
"A probability event that is very small is virtually impossible."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
P
"Present events are connected with preceding events by a tie based upon the evident principle that a thing cannot occur without a cause which produces it."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
P
"God is not necessary to explain the universe; natural laws suffice."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
P
"Mathematical language is the alphabet in which God wrote the universe."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
P
"The laws of nature are written in the language of mathematics."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
P
"All phenomena are but consequences of the same principles."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
P
"The universe operates according to fixed principles, discovered through observation."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
P
"The universe reveals itself only to those who ask the right questions."
Pierre-Simon Laplace