Science Quotes

"I have always maintained that the universe is stranger than fiction because fiction must make sense."

"The most beautiful equations are those that explain the most with the least."

"Science is the search for truth, the effort to understand the world."

"The atoms of our bodies are traceable to origins in the distant past."

"If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to do a better experiment."

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."

"When you fire a bullet through a wall, it makes a hole. When you fire an alpha particle through atoms, it bounces back and hits you on the nose."

"Physics is the only real science. The rest are just collections of empirical facts."

"The splitting of the atom represents the greatest achievement of science, but humanity is not yet mature enough to use it wisely."

"The really important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

"You look at science, or at least you look at the science of biology, and you realize that we're incredibly complicated creatures."

"I have always felt that the wonderful thing about science is that it allows you to make sense of chaos."

"I found that the more I worked with chromosomes, the more I realized how much we still didn't understand about life itself."

"The patterns in nature are written in a language most people never take time to learn."

"The genome is poetry written in the language of DNA."

"I believe that science requires both rigorous logic and deep intuition working together."

"Scientific progress requires both the imagination to ask what if and the discipline to test it."

"Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve."

"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration."

"It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that if quantum theory hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it."

"Observations not only disturb what has to be measured, they produce it."

"The atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities."

"The acceptance of an indivisible quantum of action shows that we must renounce the ordinary classical pictures of nature."

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

"As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such."

"The recognition of the universal validity of the law of causation is the foundation of all scientific enquiry."

"The physicist has in his study of natural processes to take into account a jurisdiction which for the physicist heretofore was not determining for epistemological representation."

"Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind knows that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Leave hope behind, all ye that enter here!'"

"The task of science is both to investigate the regularity of facts—to reduce them to law."

"Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work knows that over the entrance to the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'"