Science Quotes
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.
In science, knowledge is fluid and certainty fleeting. That is at the heart of its limitations. It is also its greatest strength.
Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.
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.
Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.
All the effects of nature are only mathematical results of a small number of immutable laws.
Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
The gods did not reveal all things to men at the start; but as time goes on, by searching, they discover more and more.
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.