Science Quotes

"For many decades Einstein's equations were treated as axiomatic, yet they were derived, not revealed."

"The techniques of normal science are not well-suited to the discovery of novelty."

"Science is not the accumulation of facts but the development of better conceptual frameworks."

"The unity of knowledge lies not in a common subject matter but in a unified conceptual system."

"Explanation requires embedding a phenomenon within a network of rational relationships."

"Understanding science requires understanding the conceptual innovations it introduces."

"The empiricist dream of a pure observation language is incoherent."

"The authority of science lies not in its method but in its responsiveness to reasons."

"Science progresses not by accumulating facts but by refining its conceptual frameworks."

"The problem of induction reflects a misunderstanding of the nature of explanation."

"The uniformity of nature is not a metaphysical principle but a feature of our conceptual scheme."

"Science is continuous with everyday rational activity, not fundamentally different from it."

"The explanatory order may differ from the logical order."

"The unity of the sciences is the unity of a conceptual scheme."

"It is a great prejudice to assume that experimental physicists are not capable of original theoretical thought"

"The paradoxes only show that something is wrong. It may be the experimental data, it may be the way we're trying to interpret the data, or it may be a bad theoretical ideology that we are trying to fit the data into"

"It seems that the theory is becoming increasingly complex in trying to explain less and less"

"The physicist and the man in the street do not use the term 'reality' in the same way"

"Hidden variables seem most attractive to me"

"The results of the experiment seem to support the view that there is no deep reality"

"To avoid the appearance of obscurantism, one might prefer to have hidden variables"

"At long last you see that even in the case of single particles you must be prepared for fundamentally atomistic phenomena"

"The inequalities violated by quantum mechanics provided a criterion for acceptable hidden variable theories"

"The laws of physics must not imply a predetermined outcome"

"The measurement of incompatible observables cannot both have predetermined results"

"The universe speaks a language of mathematics"

"Reality is not what we perceive, but what we measure"

"Science is the systematic interrogation of nature"

"In the depths of the atom lies the key to the universe"

"The laws of nature are written in the language of mathematics"