Science Quotes

"The laws of inheritance are written not in words, but in the very fabric of living things."

"In mathematics lies the language through which nature speaks."

"The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be carried out by a human computer."

"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."

"The popular view that scientists are just a soulless lot is wrong. Many of them are not."

"It is possible to produce the outline of a machine with very few wheels and very few axes."

"We are not asking whether all digital computers would do well in the game, but whether one particular machine will."

"The digital computers considered so far are all of discrete type. They deal only with information expressed in discrete or digital form."

"Instead of always insisting on doing exact logical deductions we might have machines that would simulate the statistical behavior of nervous tissue."

"We can imagine each reaction as being produced by the interaction of a nervous system with the external world."

"A digital computer may be thought of as consisting of several parts."

"I would not be surprised if psychology cannot be reduced to biology, but cannot be reduced to a single biological law."

"Technology should serve humanity."

"The inventor's principal function is to perceive the wants of the age and to direct the forces of nature to supply them."

"The true scientist will always be patient and humble before nature."

"The true scientist sees a problem and cannot resist trying to solve it."

"Every invention solves a problem that someone felt was important."

"The greatest discoveries often come from asking simple questions."

"I wanted to determine the vital relationship between plants and people."

"I have learned, too, that it is impossible to account scientifically for the creative output."

"As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life."

"There is no way to understand living systems except in their relationship with the whole environment."

"The aim of science should be not to control nature but to understand it."

"The discipline of the scientific method is simply a framework for understanding the natural world in its entirety."

"The chemicals to which life is asked to make its adjustment are no longer merely the calcium and silica and copper and all the rest of the minerals washed out of the rocks and carried in rivers to the sea."

"To my mind it is a grave disservice to science to put it into the category of things that are only for the specialist to know about."

"I found that the more I looked at the little corn plant, the more there was to see."

"The more you look, the more you see, and the more you understand."

"The best scientists are those who maintain a sense of wonder."

"The most important tool in science is an open mind."