science Quotes

"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception."

"One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike – and yet it is the most precious thing we have."

"There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality."

"It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man."

"Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse."

"The field is the sole influence of the particle."

"Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss."

"We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made."

"After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well."

"What you can't imagine, you can't discover."