Science Quotes

"The universe is a unified field of consciousness."

"The observer and the observed are one."

"Consciousness is the primary creative force in the universe."

"The universe is a feedback system continuously responding to consciousness."

"The greatest discovery is that reality itself is fundamentally mysterious."

"Science is not a philosophy, it is a method for investigating nature."

"A successful theory need not be true; it need only be useful."

"The idea that science follows a fixed method is a myth."

"Science works not because it is rational, but because nature permits it."

"The neutral observer is a myth; all observation is theory-laden."

"The success of science owes more to luck than to methodology."

"The evidence for a theory is never purely rational."

"Science is a tool, not a gospel."

"The myth of the scientific method has done great damage to science."

"The best science is done by those who love it, not those who serve ideology."

"Science advances not through confirmation, but through creative anomaly."

"The scientist who questions everything is more scientific than one who doesn't."

"We are all theoretically underdetermined; experience underdetermines interpretation."

"Nature does not speak to us in the language of our theories."

"Discovery commences with the awareness of anomaly."

"Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none."

"The scientist who pauses to examine critically every major step of his procedure would quickly bring normal science to a stop."

"No puzzle solved by science is ever fully solved. The only questions that science answers are ones that scientists ask."

"Discovery of the unexpected is how science advances, yet also how paradigms shift."

"The man who embraces dogma has ceased to be a scientist."

"Scientific theories cannot be purely empirical; they must contain speculative elements."

"Competition between segments of the scientific community is the only process known which regularly results in the rejection of standard theories."

"Observation and experience can and must drastically restrict the range of admissible beliefs, else there would be no science."

"A field of science dominated by one paradigm develops in a very different way from one which has learned to live with competing paradigms."

"Anomalies are not simply ignored; they are the stuff of which scientific revolutions are made."