science

“It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.”

“You 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.”

“God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.”

“I 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.”

“The 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.”

“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”

“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.”

“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.”

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

“Theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.”