science
“Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.”
“It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.”
“I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing.”
“I don't like honors. I've already got the prize: the prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out.”
“Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science.”
“Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.”
“If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science.”
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”
“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.”
“The pleasure of finding things out.”
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.”
“If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.”
“Nature’s imagination is so much greater than man’s.”
“No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.”
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”
“Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.”
“Electricity, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else.”
“Do not disturb my circles.”