Quotes On: Science

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

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.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

God does not play dice.

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.