Henri Poincare Quotes

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

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 am among those who think that science has great beauty.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

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

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

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

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'

Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

I think that we scientists are seeking an understanding of the natural world. We come in various types - chemists and physicists and biologists and such - and we all have the same goal. We are making progress.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

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

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

No one will be able to deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.