Science Quotes

“Elegance is for tailors.”

“If an expert says it is possible, he is almost certainly right. If an expert says it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”

“The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.”

“Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.”

“The theory of roughness, the theory of the irregular, of the chaotic, is now at the center of science.”

“The study of the atmosphere is a problem in hydrodynamics, and I have found it so interesting and difficult that it seems to me to be the problem of my life.”

“Computation is a lens for understanding the world.”

“Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually discovered nothing at all.”

“I have not been asked to prophesy, but to give the results of my study of the laws of storms.”

“We must not be too surprised if some of these are returned to us from the moon in the form of meteors.”

“The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box.”

“A forecast is not a prophecy; it is a statement of what is most likely to happen.”

“Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.”

“For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.”

“Scientific forecasting... is the only legitimate and logical method of getting at the truth.”

“Surely there are more levels of organization between human ethology and DNA than there are between DNA and quantum electrodynamics.”

“The notion that the molecule that carries the genetic information, RNA, could also be a catalyst was a transformative idea.”

“What is true of the atomic weight of chlorine is true of many of the other elements.”

“The first definite proof of the reality of isotopes of stable elements was afforded by the element neon.”

“Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.”