Science Quotes

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

"Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense."

"The development of quantum mechanics has shown that the attitudes of the nineteenth century towards nature were naïve."

"The atoms may be thought of as the final units out of which matter is built up."

"The physicist may be satisfied when he can create a superior mechanical model of the phenomena."

"The basis of all atomic physics is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle."

"What we actually observe is always a choice between a number of possibilities afforded by nature."

"The transition from the possible to the actual takes place as soon as the interaction with the macroscopic world has been carried out."

"The chain of reasoning which led me to formulate the principle of indeterminacy was as follows."

"All science is rooted in a few axioms and intuitive concepts."

"The idea of the quantum came into physics as a sort of miracle."

"The atoms themselves no longer appear as the stable material constituents of the world."

"The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error."

"The real problem is that we are trying to apply the concepts of Newton to the atomic world, where they don't apply."

"We must remember that it is not the business of physics to list all the things that happen in the world. Rather, physics concerns itself with the kinds of things that happen."

"The first thing to understand about the atom was not what was inside it, but what it was not."

"The statistical character of natural law should be considered as final."

"The probability wave of Schrödinger, however, meant something entirely different from corpuscles: it meant a tendency for something."

"Science cannot answer the question why anything exists at all."

"What we observe is not an objective reality in itself, but reality exposed to our method of questioning."

"The assumption that any universe is isotropic is now questioned more and more."

"The task of science is to understand nature and to learn from it."

"All of us, scientists and non-scientists, have been affected by the scientific worldview."

"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world."

"Do not put away your microscopes."

"Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed."

"To think of science or to use its products while ignoring its method and philosophy is not just philosophically incoherent, it is a form of betrayal of rationality itself."

"When you leave a thing alone you leave it to a fate of molds and ferments - a kind of animal life."

"A theory is nothing if not backed by experiments."

"The experimental method is the universal method of all the sciences."