Science Quotes

Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.

What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

I entertain no doubts as to the truths of the tranfinites, which I recognized with God’s help and which, in their diversity, I have studied for more than twenty years; every year, and almost every day brings me further in this science.

The atom has taught me that the little things do count – most.

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number.

My method of thought and reasoning is influenced by a scientific training—if that were not so my scientific training will have been a waste and a failure.

When evolution has been outlawed, only the outlaws will evolve.

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

It’s only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by the constant pressure of more and more honest reporting.