Science Quotes

"If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics."

"Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain."

"The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth."

"When you ask people whether they're willing to accept a drug if it's tested in mice, even though there will be side effects, they're not comfortable with it."

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

"Cargo cult science is science conducted with all the outward forms and expressions that are dressy but actually lacks the inner substance."

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

"Being a scientist is a way of thinking, not just a collection of facts."

"The most important thing in science is to find the order in nature."

"There's plenty of room at the bottom – and a lot of interesting physics there."

"The value of science is not in the facts but in the thinking."

"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."

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

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

"Uncertainty is not something we impose upon nature; it is something nature imposes upon us."

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

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

"Physics is really nothing more than a sophisticated version of child's play."

"The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks."

"Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature because in the end we ourselves are part of the mystery that we are trying to solve."

"I think that the existence of antimatter is a great triumph for the theory of relativity."

"The physicist only has to answer the question: what can I observe? He has nothing to do with the question: what is real?"

"The goal of science is not the compilation of inventories of unrelated facts, but the creation of a coherent understanding of the world."

"Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing, but an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing."

"The problem of the relevance of the quantum mechanical laws to the description of macroscopic events is very difficult."

"One cannot say that the statistical interpretation of quantum theory is not rational, for it is based on classical logic."

"Nature does not allow us to know anything about the world without changing it by the act of knowing."

"What is important is to understand that the world is built on a quantum foundation."