Science Quotes

"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."

"The atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities."

"Science is rooted in the concept of the understandable universe."

"Uncertainty is inherent in quantum mechanics."

"Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense."

"The atoms are in the final analysis mathematical entities."

"It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science."

"The possibility of going back to a state definitely passes over into a reality after the observation has been made."

"What we observe is not nature per se, but nature exposed to our questioning."

"The problem in physics is that we have too many answers."

"Heisenberg by comparison, had the physics and the culture of the physics right."

"All science is dominated by the idea of approximation."

"The first gulp from the glass of natural science will turn you into an atheist."

"In the language of Bohr, one says the atom has no reality."

"Modern physics has imposed on us the necessity of revising our conception of reality."

"What is conserved is not energy as such but the energy-momentum four-vector."

"In physics, there is only the attempt to describe the world which we perceive."

"The atoms or fundamental particles are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities."

"The understanding of nature requires both intuition and mathematics."

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

"We cannot know the position and the velocity of a particle simultaneously with perfect accuracy."

"The most important discoveries of science are not made in laboratories but in the mind."

"The universe is made not of matter but of mathematics."

"Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, or why anguish hurts."

"I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it—referring to quantum mechanics."

"The world is not made of matter; it is made of mathematics."

"The task of science is the interpretation of nature, but nature interprets itself through our observations."

"Entanglement is not spooky; it is the inevitable consequence of nature's deeper unity."

"The atom is not a thing; it is a symbol representing our knowledge and ignorance about nature."

"The task of the physicist is to find the simplest mathematics that captures the richness of nature."