Science Quotes

"A single successful experiment is worth a thousand expert opinions."

"You make a great, very great mistake if you think that psychology, being the science of the mind's laws, is something apart from biology."

"Nature shows itself to us through scientific inquiry as a calculable interconnection of forces."

"Science does not think; it calculates."

"Science is organized knowledge."

"Evolution is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that the human mind has yet devised."

"Science is a method of inquiry, not a body of knowledge."

"We are not concerned with the organism's internal machinery except as it relates to its interaction with the world."

"The source of all knowledge is interaction with the environment."

"The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws."

"The mathematician produces essences, the engineer produces materials."

"The human sciences deal with the comprehension of life in its particular manifestations."

"Science advances through bold hypotheses tested against experience; so too does understanding advance."

"The methodology of human studies must honor the irreducible complexity of the subject matter."

"Logic is the study of the essential conditions to which any knowledge must conform."

"All things are continuous, the universe is not made of discrete atoms."

"All reasoning is of the nature of explaining one fact by another."

"Science is to be preferred to art because it aims at truth."

"The true methods of modern science are of an experimental character."

"All the secrets of nature are in the structure of matter."

"Every inference partakes of the nature of induction."

"Matter is a secondary phenomenon."

"Science leaves everything as it was, and only changes our knowledge of things."

"The crisis of European science stems from a loss of connection to the lifeworld from which it originated."

"We mistake the mathematical abstraction of nature for nature itself, forgetting the living world from which it arose."

"Science is organized knowledge."

"The evolutionary process is not random; it is shaped by natural laws."

"Science is a way of controlling and organizing experience."

"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."

"Science is a social activity; scientists work in laboratories that are part of a larger human community."