Science Quotes

"What can be measured always depends on the way we ask nature the question."

"All science is a refinement of everyday thinking."

"The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder."

"What can be expressed in mathematics need not sound mystical when put into words."

"In the work of science we are always trying to simplify our experience and fit it into patterns that can be expressed in exact form."

"The task of science is the creation of unity of consciousness and action throughout the world."

"In the case of the atom, the idea of continuity of motion has no meaning in the classical sense."

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

"Every word and sentence is a sublimation of an elementary process of the nerve cells."

"The task of science is not only to investigate nature but also to create the conditions under which nature can speak."

"We have learned that matter is not the kind of thing in itself that the nineteenth century scientist thought it to be."

"The influence of the observer on the system under observation has become a necessary part of the description of nature."

"The most exciting scientific conclusions are not logically deducible from the experiments; they require a special kind of guessing."

"We must always remember that in physics it is the experiment that decides whether a theory is right or wrong."

"In the last analysis, the basis of physical science rests upon sense perception."

"Science is not just knowledge; it is a way of thinking about the world."

"The development of science and the development of humanity are ultimately interconnected."

"We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry."

"A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself."

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

"Anybody who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it."

"Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of nature as the study of methods of inquiry into nature."

"The growth of science is the discovery of a growing identity of character between the laws of nature on different scales of magnitude."

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

"Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum mechanics cannot possibly have understood it."

"Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any object can only be described in relation to the object's interaction with something else."

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

"No important induction comes from the mere observation of nature alone."

"The scientist only imposes his theories on nature to the extent that his observations are guided by those theories."

"The fundamental postulates of a science are as arbitrary as the axioms of Euclidean geometry."