Science Quotes

"Modern physics imposes on us the necessity of revising our fundamental concepts."

"The Universe doesn't consist of elementary particles but of the elementary phenomena connected by the principle of universality."

"The fundamental principle of the scientific approach is that causality is a universal law."

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

"The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them rigorously."

"To any action there is always an equal and opposite reaction."

"The elementary laws necessary and sufficient for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics, chemistry and biology are thus completely known."

"The fact that we can describe nature with mathematical laws shows that we perceive a world of rationality and order."

"The task of science, moreover, is not only to obtain a knowledge of the elementary particles, but also to discover their interrelationships."

"I believe the most important hypothesis in biology, for instance, is that everything that animals do, plants do too."

"The result of my whole study of this matter is that a belief in the absolute truth of science is a delusion."

"If you wish to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration."

"Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, as the study of how we ask questions about nature."

"We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry."

"Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real."

"It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science."

"Since the rise of quantum mechanics, physics has lost all connection with reality."

"A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself."

"The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks."

"In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself—nature does it for you."

"The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, truthfulness and sincerity."

"Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense."

"An isolated material particle is an abstraction, its properties only being definable and observable in its interactions with other systems."

"The task of the scientist is to seek the cause of natural phenomena."

"No, I don't believe that every phenomenon of Nature is within one's powers to describe."

"If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly disturbed you, you haven't understood it yet."

"In the light of quantum theory, even the concept of observer becomes somewhat doubtful."

"The greatest challenge for a scientist is to overcome his own prejudices."

"A physicist's intuition should be based on mathematics."

"What does it mean to say that an electron is at the same place at two successive times?"