Science Quotes
If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone has ever had, I'd give it to Darwin, ahead of Newton and Einstein and everyone else. In a single stroke, the idea of evolution by natural selection unifies the realm of life, meaning, and purpose with the realm of space and time, cause and effect, mechanism and physical law.
Acceptable evidence is that which can be observed and measured in such a way that subjective opinion is minimized.
If the failure of proof of nonexistence is taken as proof of existence, then we must conclude that all exist.
Is it not better to place a question mark upon a problem while seeking an answer than to put the label "God" there and consider the matter solved?
You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason - if you pick the proper postulates.
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.
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.
All arguments must obviously either be circular or reduce to an infinite regression if one never stops asking why.
Science is a quest to convince yourself and others of something you only guess to be true.
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die.
Nearly all scientific research leads nowhere - or, if it does lead somewhere, not in the direction it started off.
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.