Science Quotes

"Scientific inquiry begins with wonder and humility."

"Natural goodness in a thing depends on how it characteristically functions."

"Science proceeds not through absolute certainty but through refined approximation."

"Science is a partition of the infinite."

"Science is the study of God's thoughts."

"Science seeks truth through reason; faith seeks it through trust."

"Science without conscience leads to destruction."

"Science itself is a human practice, not a mirror held up to nature, but a particular way of engaging with it."

"Science advances not by eliminating the human perspective, but by refining it."

"Every discovery begins with a question."

"Science is the systematic pursuit of understanding reality."

"Science is the effort of the mind to understand nature's necessity."

"Science is merely the art of asking nature better questions."

"Science reveals the structure of the world, not its meaning."

"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know."

"Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own."

"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."

"It should be the whole endeavor of science to simplify experience while preserving its essential features."

"Science reveals mystery even as it dispels it."

"Science is the systematic study of the natural world through observation and reason."

"The human mind is capable of understanding the deepest mysteries of nature."

"Science is a conversation with nature, not a conquest of it."

"Science reveals nature by refusing to listen to nature's voice."

"Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality; that sensible material things are merely the interpretation, the conversion of mathematical entities into sensible form."

"The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself."

"Science is something we do to find truth; not something we do to prove that our opinions are correct."

"Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor."

"I have always thought it a mistake to judge men of science by non-scientific standards."

"Science aims at construction; superstition aims at destruction."

"What is science but a method of orderly observation and logical inference."