Science Quotes
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad - but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.
When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn`t developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.
- What makes the sky change colour when the sun reaches the horizon?
- If we tried to explain everything, we wouldn`t be able to live.
Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value they may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder.
The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.
Science is an ongoing process. It never ends. There is no single ultimate truth to be achieved, after which all the scientists can retire. And because this is so, the world is far more interesting, both for the scientists and for the millions of people in every nation who, while not professional scientists, are deeply interested in the methods and findings of science.
Nearly all scientific research leads nowhere - or, if it does lead somewhere, not in the direction it started off.
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die.
Science is a quest to convince yourself and others of something you only guess to be true.
All arguments must obviously either be circular or reduce to an infinite regression if one never stops asking why.
It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers - not by logical deduction, but by something like a sense of smell.
Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it. It is also incompatible with magic, but that also is not worth stressing. What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot of phenomena under a single heading.