science
“False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm.”
“The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an Agnostic.”
“It is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.”
“You know that all my physics is nothing else than geometry.”
“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
“Science is the poetry of reality.”
“By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter; in truth, only atoms and the void.”
“I would rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.”
“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”
“We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.”
“Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.”
“I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.”
“A man who makes assertions, or draws conclusions, regarding any given case, ought to be competent to investigate it.”
“There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle.”
“I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.”
“Without experiment I am nothing.”
“It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it.”
“If there is an exception to any rule, and if it can be proved by observation, that rule is wrong.”
“Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty — some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.”