Science Quotes

"The corn chromosome became my window into the hidden world of genetics."

"Science is not about proving yourself right; it is about finding the truth."

"The most important scientific tool is the capacity to observe without prejudice."

"The relation of weight and strength is the all-important factor of the flying problem."

"We did not think the language of science to be inappropriate."

"The most beautiful discovery of true science is that it lays bare the methods of the workings of nature."

"My inventions were born from solving real problems."

"The laws of nature are the thoughts of God."

"A single experiment well conducted outweighs a thousand speculations."

"In the humble pea plant lie the keys to understanding all life."

"Hereditary traits are not the whims of fate but expressions of law."

"Careful counting reveals the hidden harmonies of nature."

"What can be measured can be known; what can be known can be understood."

"A true scientist loves nature enough to study it without preconceived conclusions."

"The laws of nature are not imposed upon life; they flow from its essence."

"The pea plant revealed what philosophers could not explain."

"To count carefully is to see clearly what mere observation obscures."

"To count is to listen to nature's own language."

"The true experiment is nature asking questions and waiting for our careful responses."

"What appears in one generation and disappears in the next teaches us about hidden laws."

"The true scientist is a translator of nature's endless communications."

"Computing machinery and intelligence are not as separate as they might seem."

"The new problem has not the slightest chance of being solved before we can regularly design fairly large machine-storage capacities."

"The analog process is slow and the digital process is fast."

"What we need is machinery for doing sums, not a vast amount of complicated apparatus."

"In every case the machines have the disadvantage of extreme slowness."

"We cannot make machines that are like men and have feelings, but we can make machines that behave as if they had feelings."

"The problem of creating a machine that thinks involves more fundamental difficulties."

"In contrast to digital machines, analog machines have a tendency toward inaccuracy."

"The human body is ultimately a machine, subject to the same laws of physics as all other machines."