Science Quotes

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"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
Richard Feynman
"The test of all knowledge is experiment."
Richard Feynman
"The principle of science is to trust nothing except observed reality."
Richard Feynman
"What is science, after all, but a means of discovering what is really happening?"
Richard Feynman
"To do science is to try to find patterns in nature."
Richard Feynman
"Errors in science are essential for progress."
Richard Feynman
"Doubt is the key to the advancement of science."
Richard Feynman
"The whole of science is just a refinement of everyday thinking."
Richard Feynman
"What are electrons really like? They're like what you experience."
Richard Feynman
"Find out how to understand nature through careful observation and clever experimentation."
Richard Feynman
"To study a science is not to collect all the facts but to learn the methods."
Richard Feynman
"Science is a way of thinking about the world, not a collection of facts."
Richard Feynman
"The essence of science is that it works by making guesses and testing them."
Richard Feynman
"The details are not a distraction from the big picture; they are the big picture."
Richard Feynman
"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence."
Nikola Tesla
"If you wish to understand the universe, think of energy, frequency, and vibration."
Nikola Tesla
"The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up."
Nikola Tesla
"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration."
Nikola Tesla
"The human heart is a pump that distributes life force throughout the body via blood."
Nikola Tesla
"Alternate currents are more suited to the transmission of power and energy over distance."
Nikola Tesla
"Electrical science has revealed to us the existence of forces and phenomena which no other agency could discover."
Nikola Tesla
"The perfection of an invention can only be determined by practical application."
Nikola Tesla
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"We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances."
Isaac Newton
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"The method of fluxions is the general key by which all the abstruse problems may be unlocked."
Isaac Newton
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"All motion is of equal importance to me; the motion of a feather and the motion of a planet."
Isaac Newton
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"The natural world is a machine governed by mathematical laws."
Isaac Newton
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"Motion cannot exist without matter, nor matter without space."
Isaac Newton
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"I do not deal in conjecture; only in what can be demonstrated."
Isaac Newton
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"All matter attracts all other matter with a force proportional to their masses."
Isaac Newton
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"Where there is gravity, there is curvature of space and time."
Isaac Newton