Thomas Paine Quotes

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

I'm very interested in science.

I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

I've always liked all the sciences, like math, physics and biology.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to discover the laws and apply them, not inquire into their provenance.

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science—how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.

I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.

I thought I should study physics because it's fundamental to all science.

In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.

Science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.

I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.

I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.