Science Quotes

"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines" "Nature never makes leaps." "In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose" "When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success" "Science is nothing but perception" "Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction." "Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves" "Science enhances the moral environment." "Nothing in nature is random A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge" "Science which has become a great power in the last centuries will go on progressing and will strip away the veils covering the greatest problems of life" "Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?" "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe" "I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud" "The process of natural selection is smarter than you are." "The secret ingredient for success in science is the ability to ask good questions." "You cannot directly perceive sunlight; you can only perceive its reflections and refractions." "I'm against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world" "Religion teaches you to be satisfied with non-answers. Science is about the opposite" "Science replaces private prejudice with publicly verifiable evidence" "It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I’d rather not consider that)"