Science Quotes

"The question of the whereabouts of the particle is not a sensible question."

"We are accustomed to the idea that specific things, localized in space and time, are the real things to be treated in physics."

"Physics today is in the condition that mathematics was 500 years ago."

"The laws of nature are mathematical only insofar as we make them so."

"The task of science, regarded as a natural knowledge, is to provide a simple and unified picture of the world."

"When we describe the world by means of physics, we are describing an aspect of it; not the whole."

"The physicist is now forced to see in nature much more than he bargained for."

"The task of science is to furnish a rational understanding of the world in which we live."

"The task of the scientist is to ask which questions are answerable."

"The aim of science is to create a unified picture of the physical world."

"If the task of the physicist is to furnish a consistent description of nature, then he must be allowed to define his terms."

"We cannot say that the electron is here or there; we can only say it probably is."

"The purpose of science is to make the wonderful world of nature intelligible."

"The task of science is to provide accurate and useful descriptions of the natural world."

"Every experiment that does not confirm a theory is in favor of a competitor."

"The scientist cannot be allowed to dodge the philosophical consequences of his discoveries."

"The task of science is to find the patterns in nature, not to explain them away."

"The physicist who studies nature is like an archaeologist who digs in the ruins of ancient worlds."

"The task of the physicist is to simplify, not to complicate."

"The greatest achievement of science is not a formula, but a new way of seeing."

"The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but God is waiting for you at the bottom of the glass."

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

"Physics is really nothing more than a way of talking about the world."

"Uncertainty is inherent to nature itself."

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

"Energy is the basic concept of science."

"The present state of quantum mechanics contains contradictions that become visible when we pursue the logical analysis of the theory."

"No elementary phenomenon is a phenomenon until it is a registered phenomenon."

"We must remember that it is the task of science to understand the general principles which all experience obeys."

"Science ceases to exist when it attempts to answer questions that lie beyond its domain."