βThe essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.β
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Wisdom & Knowledge Β· 6 authors
Quotes on science and the spirit of inquiry. On curiosity and the pursuit of truth through discovery.
βThe great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.β
β Thomas Henry Huxley
βThe essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.β
βThere can be no truce between science and religion.β
βThe great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.β
βRelativity applies to physics, not ethics.β
βEquipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.β
βScientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.β
βIt is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.β
βYou see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.β
βNo amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.β
βThe grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.β
βI have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.β
βGod does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.β
βScience is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.β
βGravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.β
βTheories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.β
βScience without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.β