Science Quotes

It is very easy to tell the difference between man-made and God-made objects. The more you magnify man-made objects, the cruder they look, but the more you magnify God-made objects, the more precise and intricate they appear.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

Anyone who says that they can contemplate quantum mechanics without becoming dizzy has not understood the concept in the least.

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

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

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.