Science Quotes

"The same equations have the same solutions."

"The scientist only imposes one constraint: that the explanation must agree with experiment."

"The great thing about science is that it works."

"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said, Let Newton be! and all was light."

"Mathematics is the language in which God wrote the universe."

"Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones."

"The same laws which govern the planets govern the smallest particle."

"The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses."

"Observation is the most important tool of the scientist."

"A hypothesis supported by enough evidence becomes law."

"Light travels in straight lines unless bent by gravity."

"The heart of science is wonder."

"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution."

"To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of chromatic and spherical aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree."

"A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, a mere heart of stone."

"The capacity to submit oneself to a rigorous test of observation and logic is the essence of science."

"This preservation of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection."

"I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection."

"The wonderful fact that all animals and all plants are descended from some one prototype."

"But a naturalist might say 'Seeing that Nature does not make jumps' he ought systematically to arrange organic beings as thus produced."

"We must not fall into the error of supposing that the whole of the organisations of each race has been produced by natural selection."

"I have no faith in anything short of actual measurement and the Rule of Three."

"Anything which vibrates is light."

"I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genus are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species."

"If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case."

"The main conclusion here arrived at, and now held by many naturalists who are well competent to form a sound judgment, is that man is descended from some less highly organised form."

"When on board HMS Beagle, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America."

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

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."

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