“The man of science is a poor philosopher.”
“The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.”
“Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.”
“Science is the systematic classification of experience.”
“Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.”
“Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.”
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
“Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.”
“Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.”
“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”
“If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.”
“Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.”
“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of every day [sic] thinking.”
“The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
“O Star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, to waft us home the message of despair?”
“The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.”
“Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency”
“The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.”
“Man has to awaken to wonder -- and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.”
“There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.”
“Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.”
“When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails.”
“It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.”
“Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.”
“Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.”
“Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought -- particularly for people who can never”
“Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.”
“The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things which lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.”
“The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.”
“He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.”