Isaac Newton Quotes

Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.

Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

Epistemology has always been affected by technologies like the telescope and the microscope, things that have created a radical shift in how we sense physical reality.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

Experience by itself is not science.

To say that prediction is the purpose of a scientific theory is to confuse means with ends. It is like saying that the purpose of a spaceship is to burn fuel. ... Passing experimental tests is only one of many things a theory has to do to achieve the real purpose of science, which is to explain the world.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

[It's] troubling because it reminds us how difficult it is to prove anything. We like to pretend that our experiments define the truth for us. But that's often not the case. Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true. When the experiments are done, we still have to choose what to believe.

Science is not wisdom.

I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.

But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.

Despite all the advancements in science, and all things about religion that are disproved it still marches on. The bottom line is that the only real, absolutely provable answers about life and our place in the universe are provided by science, and religion has been holding down science since day one.

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

The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.

Knowledge signifies things known. Where there are no things known, there is no knowledge. Where there are no things to be known, there can be no knowledge. We have observed that every science, that is, every branch of knowledge, is compounded of certain facts, of which our sensations furnish the evidence. Where no such evidence is supplied, we are without data; we are without first premises; and when, without these, we attempt to build up a science, we do as those who raise edifices without foundations. And what do such builders construct? Castles in the air.