Science Quotes
Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is.
There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades.
Surprise is inherent in the structure of the world. Nature can throw us surprises for which no amount of knowledge would have prepared us.
Advances in science are often delayed because the common wisdom holds that something is impossible.
There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination.
Science helps us avoid dogmatism: basing conclusions on authority rather than logic and evidence.
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.
People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
Science is not a mechanism but a human progress, and not a set of findings but a search for them.