Scientific Universality Quotes

Science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Whatever is true transcends culture and religion. We do not talk of Christian physics or Moslem Algebra.

One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.

Science is a part of culture. Indeed, it is the only truly global culture because protons and proteins are the same all over the world, and it's the one culture we can all share.

Science is the one culture that's truly global - protons, proteins and Pythagoras's Theorem are the same from China to Peru. It should transcend all barriers of nationality. It should straddle all faiths, too.

Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.

The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other.

Logic, having been invented by Greeks in the Northern hemisphere, does not apply south of the equator.

The equations at which we arrive must be such that a person of any nation, by substituting the numerical values of the quantities as measured by his own national units, would obtain a true result.