The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.
None of us knows anything, not even whether we know or do not know, nor do we know whether not knowing and knowing exist, nor in general whether there is anything or not.
In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.
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 only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.
If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
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