Charles Percy Snow Quotes

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

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

Science is about unravelling nature.

Science is for anyone who wants to explore their world and understand things.

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

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.

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

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

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don't pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them.

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists.

Science isn't just for guys in lab coats, you know? It's for anybody who wants to do a good job of understanding and investigating the world.

In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties. All the senses should be awake.

The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.

Science is the key which unlocks the storehouses of nature.

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.