Rainer Weiss Quotes

From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.

My feeling is that scientific method has the power to account for and interlink all phenomena in the universe, including its origin, using the laws of nature. But that still leaves the laws unexplained.

Chance leads to discoveries, and mutagenesis is a way to enhance one's chances of finding a surprise. Often it is the exceptional observations that lead to advances; once you understand exceptions, you understand the whole picture.

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

Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science—how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.

In every one of my scientific expeditions, the most significant findings were things I didn’t expect and was not originally what we were studying.

Science isn't just about solving this or that puzzle. It's about understanding how the world works: the whole world from the vastness of the cosmos to the particularity of an individual human life. It's worth thinking about how all the different ways we have to talk about the world manage to fit together.

If all our common-sense notions about the universe were correct, then science would have solved the secrets of the universe thousands of years ago. The purpose of science is to peel back the layer of the appearance of the objects to reveal their underlying nature. In fact, if appearance and essence were the same thing, there would be no need for science.

Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it.

Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.

The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood.

The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

You just never know what's around the next corner in life or business or anything.

This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.

Science is the key which unlocks the storehouses of nature.

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle

When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.

Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.

While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is the common ground upon which they meet.

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.