Science Quotes

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"The physicist has to wander through the lonely land of thoughts and numbers."
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"Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between theory and experiment."
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"The understanding of nature requires both mathematics and intuition."
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"To understand the atom is to understand the universe."
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"To be a scientist, one must cultivate both doubt and wonder."
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"A scientist's responsibility is to seek truth, not comfort."
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"The moment we think we understand nature, we have stopped understanding it."
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"In every scientific truth, there lies a poetic truth waiting to be discovered."
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"The most important tool of a scientist is not the instrument but the mind."
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"Science is the art of asking better questions every day."
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"The universe is written in the language of mathematics, but read with the heart of wonder."
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"Every question we ask nature is a conversation, not an interrogation."
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"The true scientist remains a child in the face of nature's mysteries."
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"What we seek in science is the unity beneath the diversity of nature."
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"Nature's laws are written in code; the scientist is the translator."
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"The universe does not care about our theories; it cares only that we understand it correctly."
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"The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, upon himself and upon his fellow scientists."
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"Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be watered down."
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"A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself."
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"Nature does not allow us to say simultaneously whether the cat is alive or dead."
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"Science is a game with rules. But the rules are not set by nature, they are set by us."
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"The scientist's task is to find order in nature, not to impose it."
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"An observation is not made by everyone, but by a single observer."
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"Consciousness is the essential part of the world."
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"What we observe is not nature in itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."
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"The atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities."
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"The task of science is to develop the tools with which we may investigate nature more deeply."
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"Science has contributed immensely to the alleviation of suffering, but it cannot provide the ultimate meaning of life."
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"The greatest novelty of quantum mechanics is not the indeterminacy principle but something else."
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"The observer creates reality by the act of observation."
Schrödinger, Erwin