Science Quotes - Page 8

The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability.

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.

Hindsight is an exact science.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.

Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

And if doctor says that you don't have IBS with constipation, you might want to get a second opinion, because I had doctors that were telling me... of course, a lot of this has to do with science - progressing.

In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and deep thought, that valuable antibacterial substances were made by moulds and that I set out to investigate the problem. That would have been untrue and I preferred to tell the truth that penicillin started as a chance observation. My only merit is that I did not neglect the observation and that I pursued the subject as a bacteriologist. My publication in 1929 was the starting-point of the work of others who developed penicillin especially in the chemical field.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not going to make any progress.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.