Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.
Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.