Science and Reason

A reasoning, self-sufficing thing,

What is your aim in philosophy?—To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

The philosopher’s treatment of a question is like the treatment of an illness.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Lucky is he who has been able to understand the causes of things.

Neutrinos, they are very small

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.

Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a prime mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.

Science is organized knowledge.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

He gave man speech, and speech created thought,

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15–inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

‘Change’ is scientific, ‘progress’ is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Nature, and Nature’s laws lay hid in night.

God is always doing geometry.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms … The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.