Lise Meitner Quotes

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

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

I love reality. I love the world. I love the smell of it. I love it.

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

The good thing about science is that it is true whether or not you believe in it.

Science is true, whether you believe it or not.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward.

Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works.

Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.

Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never lie; their yea is yea, their nay, nay. They are newly discovered but not new.

All the followers of science are fully persuaded that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one certain solution to each question to which they can be applied.... This great law is embodied in the conception of truth and reality. The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.

We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are.

For scientists, reality is not optional.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. It is civilizing because it puts truth ahead of all else, including personal interests.

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.