The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
When I first went to college, I went into physics, and my goal was to help perfect nuclear fusion so I could solve the energy crisis and global warming. I probably would have done it, too, if I'd stuck to it.
Universal peace as a result of cumulative effort through centuries past might come into existence quickly - not unlike a crystal that suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared. Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.
All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.
The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.
I think that we scientists are seeking an understanding of the natural world. We come in various types - chemists and physicists and biologists and such - and we all have the same goal. We are making progress.
The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.
Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.
I want to make a difference in the world because I believe that's what science is for.
In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.
