Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. – Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, 1926
Not fact-finding, but attainment to philosophy is the aim of science. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them. – Abraham Flexner, Universities, 1930
Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more. – George Bernard Shaw
Reason, Observation, and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science. – Robert G. Ingersoll
There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. – Anton Chekhov
But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. – Francis Darwin
The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. – Gerard Piel
Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts. – George Santayana, The Sense of Beauty, 1896
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. – Eden Phillpotts, A Shadow Passes
Ah, gravity: thou art a heartless bitch. – Robert Cohen, Chuck Lorre, and Bill Prady, The Big Bang Theory, “The Big Bran Hy
There is no gravity. The earth sucks. – Graffito
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life, 1860
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics. – Immanuel Kant
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. – Max Planck, A Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, 1949
The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems. – G.W. Allport, Becoming, 1955
The improver of natural science absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties: blind faith the one unpardonable sin. – Thomas Henry Huxley, Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews, 1871
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong. – Albert Einstein
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more. – George Bernard Shaw
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. – Max Planck
