Quotes about Science

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.

There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual.

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.

I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us

Science has therefore been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

The definition of insanity is doing the same experiment and expecting different results.