Isaac Newton Quotes

The good thing about science is that it is true whether or not you believe in it.

Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.

I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.

I really believe in science. It is a faith. It is a reverence akin to religion. But as we always say, it's different from religion in that, as near as we can tell, it exists outside of us. It has an objective quality, the process of science.

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences in perceiving reality.

Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.

Disregard belief systems that aren't based on empirical studies.

I'm a firm believer in science.

Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

I believe in things that have proof.

Science is the only true guide in life.

Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.

The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.

[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is through physical science; the only corrective, therefore, of superstition is physical science.

I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind us into a greater, more resilient whole.