Quotes about Science

The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them.

What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.

I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps and how the kidney does what it does. To a certain degree, we have read the letters of the human genome. But the brain has 100 billion neurons. Each one of those has about 10,000 connections.

Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the basis of natural selection.

Evolution is the idea some people have to explain life without God.

Philosophy is like science and unlike history in that it seeks general truths rather than an account of particular events, either in the near or distant past.

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.