“It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.”
“The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.”
“Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand the universe without God.”
“Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency”
“In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.”
“The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.”
“Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.”
“Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.”
“Man has to awaken to wonder -- and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.”
“That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.”
“Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.”
“Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.”
“There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.”
“Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.”
“Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.”
“Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.”
“Truth in science can best be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.”
“Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.”
“It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.”
“Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.”
“Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.”
“Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.”
“When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails.”
“Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.”
“When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.”
“Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.”
“It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.”
“Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.”
“Science has ''explained'' nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”
“Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.”