Quotable Quotes!
“Man’s conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature’s conquest of Man.”
– C.S. Lewis
– C.S. Lewis
“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
– Albert Einstein
– Albert Einstein
“Anyone who says that they can contemplate quantum mechanics without becoming dizzy has not understood the concept in the least.”
– Niels Bohr
– Niels Bohr
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
– Albert Einstein
“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
– William Blake
– William Blake
“If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else’s. But if their thoughts - i.e., of Materialism and Astronomy - are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It’s like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.”
– C.S. Lewis
“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.” -
– Plato
– Plato
“All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.” -
– Richard P. Feynman
– Richard P. Feynman
“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.” -
– John Dewey
– John Dewey
“Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.” -
– Galileo Galilei
– Galileo Galilei
“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 P. Feynman
– Richard P. Feynman
“Science is not about building a body of known ‘facts’. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check, thus avoiding the human tendency to believe whatever makes us feel good.”
– Terry Pratchett
– Terry Pratchett
“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 Einstein
– Albert Einstein
“Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.”
– J.B.S. Haldane
– J.B.S. Haldane
“The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?”
– Charles Darwin
– Charles Darwin
“The more I study science, the more I believe in God.”
– Albert Einstein
– Albert Einstein
“Scientists make a guess and call it a hypothesis. ‘Guess’ is too short a word for a professor.”
– William Jennings Bryan
– William Jennings Bryan
I have been coming across blogs discussing the purpose of life etc with greater frequency these days. I began to ponder over the same. Putting aside the concepts and theories and living life one day at a time, i cant agree more to the following words of Emliy Dickson.
