Science Quotes

"Science is not only a disciple of reason but also one of romance and passion."

"Science is not a body of facts; it is a way of thinking."

"Science demands evidence and critical thinking; it is the foundation of knowledge."

"Every atom in your body was forged in a star."

"The scientific method has proven more reliable than other ways of knowing."

"We are products of the universe examining itself."

"Life has emerged from physics and chemistry in remarkable ways."

"The universe is governed by laws we can discover and understand."

"The study of nature reveals the handiwork of physical laws."

"The more we learn about the nature of consciousness, the more we understand that we are connected to all life."

"No elementary phenomenon is a phenomenon until it is a registered phenomenon."

"Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, i.e. matter, but rather as the study of the world of what can be said about nature."

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

"Anybody who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it."

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

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

"When we measure something we are not measuring an intrinsic property of the thing itself."

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

"Light and matter have both a wave and a particle nature, and which one we observe depends on the type of experiment we perform."

"Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe."

"If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize."

"The atomic phenomena are closed in as to space when the interaction between the atom and the measuring instruments is taken into account."

"One can't explain correlations of atoms in molecules without quantum mechanics."

"An isolated material particle is an abstraction; its properties can only be defined and observed in its interaction with other systems."

"Language carries with it historical and religious associations which make it a dangerous tool for scientific description."

"The task of science is both to extend the range of our experience and to reduce it to rational order."

"The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models."

"The stability of matter itself is a quantum mechanical effect."

"Atoms are not things; they are only the intersections of thing-like processes."

"Physics is concerned with objective descriptions of nature, but such descriptions are not objective in an absolute sense."