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Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.
Oct 1, 2025
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.
Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite.
Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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.
The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
But biology and computer science - life and computation - are related. I am confident that at their interface great discoveries await those who seek them.
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
One cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Curiosity has its own reason for existence.
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.
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.
Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
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