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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Sidelights on Relativity (1922)
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
- God
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn’t.
LWLyall Watson1939–2008
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Abolition of Man
For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Abolition of Man (1943), Ch. III
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Aristotle384–322 BCPolitics, Book I, 1253a.8
- Nature
I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
Desmond Morris1928–2026
- Anti-Religion
It is very easy to tell the difference between man-made and God-made objects. The more you magnify man-made objects, the cruder they look, but the more you magnify God-made objects, the more precise and intricate they appear.
LSLuther Sutherland
- God
Anyone who says that they can contemplate quantum mechanics without becoming dizzy has not understood the concept in the least.
Niels Bohr1885–1962
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.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
In science, ‘fact’ can only mean ‘confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.’ I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould1941–2002Often credited to G. K. Chesterton
What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake1757–1827
Scientists make a guess and call it a hypothesis. ‘Guess’ is too short a word for a professor.
William Jennings Bryan1860–1925
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature. If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.
Richard Feynman1918–1988The Character of Physical Law (1965), chapter 2, “The Relation of Mathematics to Physics,” p. 58