science Quotes

"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."

"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."

"Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone."

"Everybody should be ashamed who uses the wonders of science and engineering without thinking and having mentally realized not more of it than a cow realizes of the botany of the plants which it eats with pleasure."

"The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of... ...

"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you... ...

"I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy."

"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."

"A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory."