Science Quotes

"The principles governing the natural world are accessible to patient inquiry."

"Truth springing from well-conducted investigation of phenomena and their relation by the scientific method is the safeguard against superstition."

"The scientific method is all well and good for material things, but it cannot be applied to the human spirit."

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

"That it is not denied that the science of political economy has much value as an explanation of facts."

"Nature operates according to laws that can be discovered through reason."

"The advancement of science is inseparable from moral progress."

"One should not make oneself a slave to science."

"Physical objects are not in space, but space is in physical objects."

"Matter is nothing but a vulgar error in the minds of men."

"All that we know of motion we know from ourselves."

"The foundation of all science is observation, not speculation."

"Each monad is a mirror of the universe."

"Science teaches us to seek truth through reason."

"The universe is rational and orderly."

"Mathematics is the science of the infinite; its subject is intuition."

"The universe operates according to laws that our reason can apprehend."

"The existence of order in nature proves the existence of rational order."

"The mind and body are one and the same thing."

"The body cannot determine the mind to think."

"Consciousness is the self-awareness of matter in motion."

"Miracles are merely events whose natural cause we do not yet understand."

"Science is the art of discovering hidden truths."

"Science is the rational pursuit of understanding."

"Geometry is a science wherein knowledge can be communicated with certainty."

"The study of mathematics is the quickest way to exercise the mind."

"Method is the soul of discovery and of argument."

"Sensory perception only tells us that bodies produce various sensations in us, and not that something exists outside us having the same form as what we perceive."

"The problem of understanding the Universe seems to be so gigantic that I am tempted to think it is not a proper scientific problem at all."

"Nature speaks only one language—that of mathematics."