Science Quotes

"A science does not grow at its frontiers, where it encounters another science, but where it is internally not yet ordered."

"What is a fact? It is the raw material of science."

"We believe that the science of nature consists in recognizing the relations and the dependencies of facts."

"The new physics has given us a view of the universe that is both humbling and exhilarating."

"Science is built on the assumption that nature is rational."

"The essence of science is its method, not its content."

"Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real."

"If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet."

"The great edifice of science is a way of organizing and systematizing our knowledge about the universe."

"Light and matter are both single entities, and the apparent duality arises in the limitations of our language."

"Measurement affects the system being measured."

"The chemistry of life is phosphorus chemistry."

"To describe atomic events one must use a language which refers to experiments and their results."

"Complementarity is indeed the heart of the interpretation of quantum mechanics."

"The task of theory is not to produce formulas, but to establish relationships between observable quantities."

"In general, we look for a new law by the following process: first we guess it, then we compute the consequences, and then we compare with nature, or with experiment or experience."

"In the description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down so far as it is possible the interdependence of the manifold aspects of experience."

"The paradoxes of quantum mechanics arise from trying to think of atoms as if they were small mechanical systems."

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

"In the atom, we are confronted with a reality which in many respects is completely different from anything in the world of our direct experience."

"The language of nature is mathematics, but we must learn to read it in new ways."

"When dealing with atoms, we can never speak of the 'things themselves.'"

"What is not possible in all respects is that one should be able to say something definite about both position and velocity at the same time."

"Mathematics is the language in which God wrote the world, but we need experience to interpret it."

"Behind every scientific formula is a story of human struggle and insight."

"The classical description of the world is an approximation; reality is fundamentally quantum."

"The act of observation changes the thing observed."

"The purpose of an experiment is not to confirm what we think we know, but to challenge it."

"Every experiment carries within it the seeds of new mysteries."

"We are not discovering laws of nature; we are inventing them as we try to describe our observations."