“Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.”
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“Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.”
“The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.”
“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
“The man of science is a poor philosopher.”
“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.”
“Science is nothing but perception.”
“Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.”
“Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles he can only discover them.”
“This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.”
“The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?”
“Science is but an image of the truth.”
“Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.”
“I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.”
“The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.”
“Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.”
“Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.”
“Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.”
“Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.”
“We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of the element air, which by unquestioned experiments is known to have weight.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23455767
“There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.”
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle ...
“We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.”
“Looks like we caught a Dragon by the tail.”
http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/ca...
“If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.”