science Quotes

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

"The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder."

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

"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 man of science is a poor philosopher."

"There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance."

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

"Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations."

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

"Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character."