Science Quotes – Insightful Reflections on Research and Knowledge

"Science is much closer to myth than a scientific philosophy is prepared to admit. It is one of the many forms of thought that have been developed by man, and not necessarily the best. It is conspicuous, noisy, and impudent, but it is inherently superior only for those who have already decided in favour of a certain ideology, or who have accepted it without ever having examined its advantages and its limits."

Paul Feyerabend

"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."

Werner Karl Heisenberg

"You can experience the thrill of discovery, the incredible, visceral feeling of doing something no one has ever done before, see things no one has ever seen before, know something no one has ever known before. ... Welcome to science, you're gonna like it here."

Philip Plait

"I still hear some people say that science takes the wonder out of life. Those people are utterly wrong. Science takes us to the wonder"

Philip Plait

"The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite."

Werner Karl Heisenberg

"What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal."

Werner Karl Heisenberg

"However, science isn't just about showing when you're right; it's also about showing when you're wrong."

Philip Plait

"Some people try to tell me that science will never answer the big questions we have in life. To them I say: baloney! The real problem is your questions aren't big enough."

Philip Plait

"Not everything that’s cool is science, but everything in science is cool."

Philip Plait

"The separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental to the advancement of knowledge. If we want to understand nature, if we want to master our physical surroundings, then we must use all ideas, all methods, and not just a small selection of them."

Paul Feyerabend

"The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in."

Rupert Sheldrake

"The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith."

Rupert Sheldrake

"Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none."

Thomas Kuhn

"Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others."

Alan Kay

"Every important idea in science sounds strange at first."

Thomas Kuhn

"Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists."

Thomas Kuhn

"Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments."

Thomas Kuhn

"No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain.... No scientific theory is sacrosanct."

Karl Popper