Quotes about Science

Today, the concrete data point strongly in the direction of the God hypothesis. . . . Those who wish to oppose it have no testable theory to marshal, only speculations about unseen universes spun from fertile scientific imagination. . . . Ironically, the picture of the universe bequeathed to us by the most advanced twentieth-century science is closer in spirit to the vision presented in the Book of Genesis than anything offered by science since Copernicus.27

As science turns toward the realm of the Spirit to understand the physical universe, Space, Matter, Time are more prone to induce reverence than arrogance among scientists, who are sounding more like Isaiah in the temple than Isaac Newton under the apple tree.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

There are scientists who will tell you that spirit, because it can't be measured, doesn't exist. Bollocks. It does exist.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.

There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual.

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.

I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.