Science Quotes

"What we measure, we understand; what we understand, we can improve."

"In numbers, we find the fingerprints of truth."

"Science is our way of asking nature to reveal its secrets."

"Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thoroughgoing an association as possible."

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"

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

"The theory is beautiful, but the experiments show otherwise."

"My interest in science was always essentially limited to the broader applications for the benefit of mankind."

"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."

"The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up."

"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration."

"I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device."

"Electrical action is something that takes place within the atom."

"The formation of different languages and of distinct species, and the proofs that both have been developed through gradual steps, are curiously parallel."

"My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding out general laws out of large collections of facts."

"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."

"It has been remarked that a man of the name of Hardy, in the County of Essex, has actually succeeded in producing some strange and most interesting hybrids."

"Do not suppose, however, that I intend to assert anything when I say that similar bones in the hand of a man, wing of a bat, and fin of a porpoise have all been built on a common archetype."

"The principle of natural selection is incompatible with the supernatural."

"The gradual accumulation of small modifications, which my theory requires, finds its record in the gradations between the different and the allied forms of life."

"Thus man and all other animals have been developed from some prototype so lowly organized that its character cannot be determined."

"A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales."

"Radium has something to do with the extraordinary fact that the atom is not indivisible."

"Science is the poetry of understanding reality."

"Science reveals the mechanics; philosophy reveals the meaning."

"Matter is not a thing; it is a doing, a performance, an enactment."

"Measurement is not a passive observation but an active engagement."

"Matter has agency; it is not passive or dead."

"Knowledge practices are material and political."

"Phenomena are not reducible to their parts."