Lawrence Bragg Quotes

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked 'why.'

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

You must acquire something of that industrious habit of mind which the study of natural science gives,—the art of comparing, of perceiving true likenesses and true differences, and so of classifying and arranging what you see; the art of connecting facts together in your mind in cause and effect

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Generally, I'm not writing about genomes or anything like that. But people underestimate the creativity you use in science and the rigor you need in music. They basically have the same path.

Women study things in order to figure out how they're connected to other things. I don't know if it's controversial to say that, but that's what I've seen from doing science for a couple of decades.

Science is not wisdom.

Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

Science is facts.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.