8,157 Quotes About Science

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.

Life is funny that way. Sometimes the dumbest thing you do turns out to be the smartest.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

Right? I don’t know why I did it. Temporary insanity, maybe. Did you ever do something that makes absolutely no sense, but you couldn’t help yourself?

Wish me good luck, please,” I whisper. “On one condition,” Philemone says. “Remember, what you call luck is the meeting of opportunity and flexibility.” I smile, weakly. “Good luck,” she says. “Now go.