"With acurate experiment and observation, imagination becomes the architect of physical theory."
—John Tyndall (1820-1893)
"Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts. But a pile of stone is not a house and a collection of facts in not neccessarily science."
—Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912)
"I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the great masses."
—Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
"Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannnot communicate and teach it."
—Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)
"There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors."
—J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1966)
“One test result is the worth one-thousand expert opinions.”
― Werner Von Braun (1912-1977)
"So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infinite in all directions, not only above us in the large but also below us in the small".
—Emil Wiechert (1861-1928)
"The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity."
—Ilya Prigogine (1917-2003)
“We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate”
—Ilya Prigogine (1917-2003)
“Entropy is the price of structure.”
—Ilya Prigogine (1917-2003)
“The main character of any living system is openness.”
—Ilya Prigogine (1917-2003)
"The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe."
—Philip W. Anderson