Thomas E. Mann Quotes

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

Philosophy is the true mother of science.

In science one must search for ideas. If there are no ideas, there is no science. A knowledge of facts is only valuable in so far as facts conceal ideas: facts without ideas are just the sweepings of the brain and the memory.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious.

Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.

Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.

Never bet against science!

There are no secrets in science.

I'm first and foremost a scientist.

I think I always wanted to go into physics. What always fascinated me about science was the desire to understand what underlies it all, and I think physics is basically the study of that.

Science requires speculation, creativity, and wild ideas.

The way to solve problems in the world is to become scientists and technologists and build things that haven't been built before and discover things that people really don't know about.

Saying that we should stop nanoscience is tantamount to saying we should stop science.

Science is a quest for understanding.

Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.

Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.

Science is the search for truth.

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

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

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. Sometimes it is one foot which is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both.

It is the great beauty of our science, chemistry, that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead of exhausting the subjects of research, opens the doors to further and more abundant knowledge, overflowing with beauty and utility.