science
“Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said, ‘‘Let Newton be!’’ and all was light.”
“No statement is immune to revision.”
“Ontological questions, under this view, are on a par with questions of natural science.”
“Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.”
“Philosophy of science is philosophy enough.”
“The sciences do not try to explain; they hardly even try to interpret; they mainly make models.”
“All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.”
“To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man.”
“Nature is pleased with simplicity.”
“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
“Hypotheses non fingo.”
“I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore.”
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.”
“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star.”
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
“One man's magic is another man's engineering.”
“Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.”
“Facts do not speak for themselves; they are read in the light of theory.”
“Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science.”