Science Quotes - Page 6

The footsteps of Nature are to be trac'd, not only in her ordinary course, but when she seems to be put to her shifts, to make many doublings and turnings, and to use some kind of art in endeavouring to avoid our discovery.

It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.

Opinions are very dangerous, because they aren't based on scientific studies.

For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it.

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova, illuminating the darkest, most profound corners of mathematics, before being tragically struck down by tuberculosis at the age of 33, like Riemann before him. Working in total isolation from the main currents of his field, he was able to rederive 100 years' worth of Western mathematics on his own. The tragedy of his life is that much of his work was wasted rediscovering known mathematics.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant race in a tiny corner of the universe, and still less in us, as still more insignificant individuals. Again, I see no reason why the belief that we are insignificant or fortuitous should lessen our faith.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

You can't have a conscience in the pimp game.

The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead. Statement of the Achilles and the Tortoise paradox in the relation of the discrete to the continuous.; perhaps the earliest example of the reductio ad absurdum method of proof.

The two fortresses which are the last to yield in the human heart, are hope and pride.

It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created. For He himself has let man take part in the knowledge of these things ... For these secrets are not of the kind whose research should be forbidden; rather they are set before our eyes like a mirror so that by examining them we observe to some extent the goodness and wisdom of the Creator.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience.

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support it, act absurdly. I wish to question freely and to answer freely without any sort of adulation. That well becomes any who are sincere in the search for truth.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

In the new era, thought itself will be transmitted by radio.

Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.