Science Quotes

"Understanding our origins does not diminish us but elevates us."

"Life's diversity is the result of ancient experiments and accidents."

"We are not separate from nature; we are part of it."

"We cannot protect what we do not understand."

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

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

"Complementarity is a strange concept. It means that two apparently contradictory assertions are both needed to describe nature."

"I must say I like long and elegant mathematical arguments at the expense of any appeal to experiment and experience."

"Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, i.e. something independent of how we act, but rather as the science of the description of nature by the help of our concepts."

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

"Niels Bohr used to say that the task of science is not to discover the real essence of things, but simply to describe their relations."

"In the old days, one had the idea that if all the atoms were knocked apart, great new sources of energy would be released, as from a coiled spring."

"Light and matter are both single entities, and the apparent duality arises in the limitations of our language."

"The beauty of science is that it can be wrong, and we all know how to fix it."

"One can hardly overstate the importance of the careful design of experiments, though good luck can sometimes serve as well."

"What we observe is not nature in itself but the nature exposed to our method of questioning."

"Science is not a collection of laws, but a method for making observations and predictions."

"The correspondence principle states that a new scientific theory should reduce to the old one in the appropriate limit."

"The same quantum mechanical principles that govern atoms also govern galaxies."

"Electrons are not things, they are possibilities."

"The quantum world is a world of probabilities, not certainties."

"The purpose of physics is to provide a description of nature in the simplest possible terms."

"The great strength of science is its ability to admit error and move forward."

"The atomic nucleus is a miniature solar system, but the laws that govern it are fundamentally different."

"The spectator is as important in physics as the observed phenomenon."

"The moment we stop questioning is the moment we stop being scientists."

"In the atomic realm, uncertainty is not a limitation of our knowledge but a fundamental feature of reality."

"The pleasure of finding things out is the most important thing."

"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."

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