Rene Descartes 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.

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.

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

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

I always looked at myself as a physicist learning new tricks by looking at nature.

Science is the key which unlocks the storehouses of nature.

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

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

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

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.

I have always focused on basic research, motivated by a desire to understand the world.

I've always wanted to answer all the questions that nature posed for us.

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.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

Science is about unravelling nature.

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

There's something really beautiful about science, that human beings can ask these questions and can answer them. You can make models of nature and understand how it works.

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

...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.

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

Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.

But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.