All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared minds.

... the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material triumphs in our time are not to bring human history to an abrupt, unpleasant and discreditable end.

Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.

Science is an attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of his broad horizon and degrades him to the level of a mechanic.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Science books are letters from God, telling how He runs His universe.