Science and Reason

No great discovery was ever made in science except by one who lifted his nose above the grindstone of details and ventured on a more comprehensive vision.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.

Just as a poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the economy is not economics. Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy.

Great intellects are skeptical.

It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.

Nothing happens until something moves.

No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Color, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills.

I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies extends to the power of vision.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is near, and large that which is small.

I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact .

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the “sensus communis

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.

It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Study is like the heaven’s glorious sun, That will not be deep-search’d with saucy looks; Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others’ books. These earthly godfathers of heaven’s lights That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are.