Science Quotes

"A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it."

"Science began with wonder; we must not lose wonder as science advances."

"The most important tool of theoretical physics is the wastebasket."

"In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself—nature does it for you."

"A scientist's task is not to guess nature's intent, but to describe her behavior."

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

"The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve."

"I think that it is very important that we do science for the fun of it."

"The task of science is not to discover God's purpose, but to describe His means."

"The question is often not whether a theory is true, but whether we have asked the right question."

"The boundary between physics and mathematics is more fluid than we normally think."

"Success in science requires not just intelligence, but also the willingness to be proven wrong."

"The heart of science is not formulas, but asking the right questions."

"The unity of science lies not in its subjects, but in its method."

"The strange thing about quantum mechanics is not that it is strange, but that nature itself is strange."

"The purpose of mathematics is not to discover truth, but to create understanding."

"The physicist's task is to find the simplest description of nature's complexity."

"The greatest discoveries come when we stop looking for what we expect to find."

"What nature has hidden in deep darkness, the physicist must bring to light."

"Science without conscience is the ruin of the soul."

"In physics, the important thing is not to be right, but to be less wrong than before."

"The universe speaks in the language of mathematics; we are merely learning to translate."

"The foundations of science are not certainty, but carefully tested uncertainty."

"The symmetry principles of nature are more fundamental than the laws themselves."

"Good science is like good art; it reveals something true about the nature of reality."

"The continuum cannot be treated as a collection of discrete points."

"Numbers are the language through which the universe speaks to us."

"The world reveals its structure through the language of mathematics."

"One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own."

"Physics is becoming too important to be left to physicists."