Norbert Wiener Quotes

Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

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

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

Science is the key which unlocks the storehouses of nature.

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.

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

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

For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.

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

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.

Science at NASA is all about exploring the endless frontier of the Earth and space.

Why do you do science? In this particular case, we don't have a very good reason to be doing this except for the knowledge that it brings. This research is especially important to young people. We all want to know what's going on in the universe.

I've always been fascinated with science and exploring our world, from microbes to the solar system.

...Nature-the word that stands for the baffling mysteries of the Universe. Steadily, unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart of Nature, from what she is to reconstruct what she has been, and to prophesy what she yet shall be. Veil after veil we have lifted, and her face grows more beautiful, august, and wonderful, with every barrier that is withdrawn.

Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.

The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science - that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

Science demands patience.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

There are two questions that get to us all: Are we alone in the Universe? And, where did we come from? For me, science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion I've come across. With that said, the universe is mysterious and wonderful. It fills me with reverence for nature and our place among the stars; our place in space.

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.

Science is a fundamental part of our existence.