Science and Reason

Definite speech means clarity of mind.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

When Bishop Berkeley said “there was no matter,” And proved it—’twas no matter what he said.

Nature cannot be ordered about, except by obeying her.

Mehr Licht!

God is always doing geometry.

Neutrinos, they are very small

Our meddling intellect

The discovery of a nuclear chain reaction need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.

A reasoning, self-sufficing thing,

Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals.

Life, they urge, would be intolerable if men were to be guided in all they did by reason and reason only.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.

The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.

Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that border the sea, in the same way in which they are found in the depths of the sea?

Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils.