Science Quotes

"I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads."

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

"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

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

"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more."

"When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes."

"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure."

"One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have"

"The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who know it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out can."

"They (preachers) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live"

"With all your science can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that Light comes into the soul?"

"The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble."

"All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation."

"There is something referred to as the 'Darwin industry' in science."

"The true contrast between science and myth is more nearly touched when we say that science alone is capable of verification"

"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."

"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."

"After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it."